Microsoft Openwashing Stunts Initiative (OSI) is A Vulture in "Open" Clothing
WHEN the openwash-savvy factory, OSI, writes a blog post it's almost guaranteed to come from a Microsoft operative these days. The blog's operators are basically salaried by Microsoft. It's hardly surprising that they nowadays use the blog mostly to drive Microsoft's agenda, trying to "mainstream" it. Even when the OSI talked about licensing the other day it was the voice of Microsoft:
The OSI has been too busy promoting proprietary GitHub and openwashing Microsoft. Too busy to keep track of licences. It's mostly openwashing "AI" and promoting GPL violations. That's what the OSI exists for right now. How about the OSI takes on this Microsoft-sponsored site lying about "open source" LLMs? No? Why not? Because the OSI too is far too bribed by Microsoft? It says: "Today’s report didn’t specify which open-source models could find their way into Copilot. However, it’s probable that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama LLMs are among the algorithms under consideration."
It's not Open Source. They now talk about "the open-source ecosystem" in relation to Microsoft and Copilot, i.e. proprietary. Another report says "Microsoft has been working on adding internal and third-party artificial intelligence models to power its flagship AI product Microsoft 365 Copilot, in a bid to diversify from the current underlying technology from OpenAI and reduce costs, sources familiar with the effort told Reuters."
At least they don't say "Open Source".
Either way, it's quite telling that the OSI isn't protecting the Open Source Definition. It instead helps the company that attacks it the most. Because it takes bribes from it and lets it run things. We saw the same at the Linux Foundation, which sold to Microsoft a year earlier than the OSI. █