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This is not "open source" at all.

It looks like OpenAI really has messed around with the definition of "Open" and we are seeing lots of startups run with that to the point where the definition is meaningless.

Just like "AGI" is also meaningless.



The good news is their rugpull is their launch day since they came out of the gate with a fake open source license


for a product that nobody is actually interested, the 10th agent builder from YC in the last month.


I mean I think this agent builder might be cool, but I'm definitely not using it when OpenAI's is MIT licensed


From what I recall, misuse of "open source" started becoming popular around the time that every dev and their dog was writing a GUI REST client with the following playbook:

1. Code up a halfway decent product.

2. Call yourself the "open source alternative to X" where X is some well-known proprietary enterprise product.

3. Once you have a community and your product has gotten stable on the backs of thousands of unpaid volunteers, pull the rug and rake in millions of those sweet, sweet enterprise dollars.




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