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Favorite Some people believe that full unfettered access to all training data is paramount. This group argues that anything less than all the data would compromise the Open Source principles, forever removing full reproducibility of AI systems, transparency, security and other outcomes. We’ve heard them and we’ve provided a solution
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Shared by voicesofopensource October 9, 2024
Favorite No! Open Source is never hyphenated when referring to software. If you’re familiar with English grammar you may have more than an eyebrow raised: read on, we have an explanation. Actually, we have two. We asked Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, a linguist and KDE’s project manager, to provide us
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource September 26, 2024
Favorite The European Commission recently published a public draft of the standards request associated with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Anyone who wants to comment on it has until May 16, after which comments will be considered and a final request to the European Standards Organizations (ESOs) will be issued.
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Favorite During 2023, OSI and many others across the Open Source communities spent a great deal of time and energy engaging with the various co-legislators of the European Union (EU) concerning the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Together with a revision to Europe’s Product Liability Directive (PLD), the CRA will bring
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource February 2, 2024
Favorite As the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is entering into the final legislative phase, it still has some needs arising from framing by the Commission or Parliament that result in breakage no matter how issues within its scope are “fixed”. Here’s a short list to help the co-legislators understand
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource September 5, 2023
Favorite OSI is pleased to see that Meta is lowering barriers for access to powerful AI systems. Unfortunately, the tech giant has created the misunderstanding that LLaMa 2 is “open source” – it is not. Even assuming the term can be validly applied to a large language model comprising several
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource July 20, 2023
Favorite OSI submitted its comments to the United States Patent and Trademark Office to defend Open Source from patent trolls. A few days ago the Linux Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation and Unified Patents asked for the community to send their comments. Below is the text of the letter we sent.
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource June 27, 2023
Favorite In reviewing the language and concepts being used in the various draft bills and directives circulating in Brussels at present, it is clear that the experts crafting the language are using their understanding of proprietary software to build the protections they clearly intend for Open Source. This may be
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 25, 2023
Favorite The news that the European Commission’s competition directorate (DG COMP) has decided not to conduct a full antitrust investigation into the Alliance for Open Media’s (AOM) licensing policy is to be welcomed, especially for the AV1 CODEC specification (successor to the VP9 CODEC and intended to allow royalty-free, high-quality video streaming). It seems
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 23, 2023
Favorite One of the proposals in the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is that European standards bodies should develop suitable standards that help simplify conformance. Bert Hubert explains how this might work in his extensive CRA explainer. There’s a crucial issue here for Open Source. EU policy experts say not to
Read More Shared by voicesofopensource May 16, 2023