Power Rangers Stack Hands, OpenAI Is the Tinky Winky Impostor

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A comic using the 'Power Rangers hand stack / Tinky Winky' template by mikeorganisciak.com. Six small panels show gloved hands joining a team stack, each labeled with a logo of a genuinely open project: OpenGL, OpenCV, OpenSSH, OpenCL, OpenVPN - and then a purple Teletubby arm labeled OpenAI. The large final panel reveals the Power Rangers turning around, annoyed and suspicious, to find Tinky Winky grinning with the OpenAI logo above his head. The joke: every other 'Open*' project is actually open source, while OpenAI wears the 'open' prefix despite being a closed, proprietary frontier-model company - one of these things is not like the others

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Naming things remains hard: OpenGL ships a spec, OpenSSH ships source, and OpenAI ships an invoice - the prefix is a deprecated flag from the nonprofit era that nobody dares remove

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Naming things remains hard: OpenGL ships a spec, OpenSSH ships source, and OpenAI ships an invoice - the prefix is a deprecated flag from the nonprofit era that nobody dares remove
Anonymous

Turns out `Open` was a namespace, not an access modifier.
@deimossos 2mo

Is openvpn really open? When I tried to set it up long time ago, it had like 6 users on the free license
1. @sysoevyarik 2mo
  
  Maybe it's again protocol & default implementation/instance with the same exact name?
2. dev_meme 2mo
  
  They got a ton of apps, some are completely free (the openvpn server/client) and some are paid, I never understood why they need 3 apps for the same thing though
@Stepan_Turchenko 2mo

OpenApi 🤕
@abel1502 2mo

I think this is all a big miscommunication. What they meant to name themselves, judging by the logo and what they do, was GapingAI