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The fate of "small" open source

(nolanlawson.com)
295 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ef2k ◴[17 Nov 25 00:42 UTC] No.45949896[source]▶
> I’m still trying to figure out what kinds of open source are worth writing in this new era

Is there any upside to opensourcing anything anymore? Anything published today becomes training data for the next model, with no attribution to the original work.

If the goal is to experiment, share ideas, or let others learn from the work, maybe the better default now is "source available", instead of FOSS in the classic sense. It gives people visibility while setting clearer boundaries on how the work can be used.

I learned most of what I know thanks to FOSS projects so I'm still on the fence on this.

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1. justarandomname ◴[17 Nov 25 01:48 UTC] No.45950185[source]▶
This is kinda how I've felt for months. I don't have any interest in continuing existing open source projects and don't want to create any new ones.

What's the point?

All of my personal projects for the past few months have been entirely private, I don't even host them on Github anymore, I have a private Forgejo instance I use instead.

I also don't trust any new open source project I stumble upon anymore unless I know it was started at least a year ago.