I hate the recent open-source rise

turtleyacht

What instead? If not free software, then maybe ONF software: Open{- }source is Not Free.

cjs_ac

The hyphenation probably stems from the fact that, grammatically, 'open-source' is a compound adjective. The LLMs are probably weighting this over the nature of 'open source' as jargon.

dist-epoch

There is no such thing as "correct" or "incorrect" hyphenation, or for that matter "correct English". Source: linguists > Linguists insist that it’s wrong to designate any kind of English “proper” because language always changes and always has. ... Rather, what is considered proper English is, like so much else, a matter of fashion. Author: > John McWhorter, contributing editor at The New Republic and columnist for The New York Daily News, teaches linguistics, American studies and Western civilization at Columbia University. His latest book is “What Language Is, What It Isn’t and What It Could Be.” https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...

dataflow

What a weird hill to choose to die on. I wasn't even aware of the trend, but I love it now that I'm aware of it; it makes total sense. If you're a prescriptivist, then open-source should be hyphenated for the same reason full-time, user-friendly, long-term, etc. are. That's how English works. You don't make the rules, and neither does OSI. If you're a descriptivist, then why are is OSI getting a monopoly on everyone's vocabulary? You should be happy to let people use whatever term however they want. You know, freedom and all. You still don't make the rules, and neither does OSI. MW also thinks it's hyphenated, but what do they know, right? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open-source

edg5000

Commercial, paid: You must pay money, you get access to service or a binary, or something in between. No source code released. Shareware: You get to download and use the binary for free. Parts of it are missing, you must pay to receive a copy of it. (DOOM, WinRAR, Duke Nukem) Freeware: Binaries are free to use and distribute, complete functionality. Source code not published. (Adobe Acrobat Reader, Draw.io, IrfanView, Google Earth Pro) Open-source: The source code is openly available. Sometimes development also happens in the open. (PHP, Apache HTTPD, Linux, GCC) Open weights: AI model weights released including inference, tokenizer code and chat template. Some info released about how it was made. Training dataset and taining code NOT published. Crawler, scraper, book piracy, distillation methods: NOT published.

johnea

I also hate open source. The derailment of free software to a profit making exercise. As opposed to the sharing of software written by entities that will use the software,, and thus write it for themselves. Apparently, there is only for-sale products, no entity that would use software would ever write it. And even if they did, they would never share it. The purpose of life, the universe and everything: shareholder returns, obviously...