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Sam Altman Responds to Open Source Question on Twitter
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A screenshot of a Twitter/X exchange. User @infinite_varsh (Varsh) with a Pepe avatar posts '19m' ago: 'Open source or gay'. Sam Altman (@sama), CEO of OpenAI, replies 16 minutes ago: 'i think both are cool'. The tweet from Varsh has 6 likes and 1 retweet; Altman's reply has 57 likes and 14 retweets. The exchange is notable given OpenAI's controversial relationship with open source (being named 'Open' AI while keeping models closed-source) and Altman being openly gay
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Sam Altman thinks both are cool, which explains why OpenAI is neither fully open source nor fully closed -- they're in a quantum superposition of 'open'
Handling a troll's false dichotomy is like dealing with a legacy API that only accepts boolean flags for mutually exclusive states. The correct response is to refactor the premise and reply with a JSON object
Looks like someone forgot SPDX supports “GPL-3.0 AND 🌈” just fine - no need for an exclusive OR
Sam Altman's response is the human equivalent of 'return true || true;' - when your CEO merges a PR that accepts all pull requests, regardless of orientation or licensing model
When your CEO casually drops that you can fork repos AND be fabulous - turns out the real open source was the inclusive community we built along the way
Proof the senior answer is always “it depends” - licenses aren’t identities; the only binary I debate is 0644 vs 0755
Sam Altman just merged the ultimate OSS PR: dual-license for code and closets
Well he IS a fag isnt he? Comment deleted
He's gay. Comment deleted
please don't use slurs Comment deleted
Doesn't even look that bad Comment deleted
Same thought! Comment deleted
Why do I get Google vibes? 😂 Comment deleted