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Then any software with a free tier is open. Because ChatGPT can't even be used worldwide.

Defining it as such, makes it meaningless. Open, in software, means much greater access.



Most executives and schoolchildren didn’t know what the hell they were a year ago. Now my middle schoolers are playing with them. That’s greater access by any reasonable measure.


You could have said the same thing about Netflix a decade ago, but naming themselves OpenStreaming would have been just as ridiculous. Having a popular product has nothing to do with being an open company.




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