Gruber's shilling some here. Andreesen et al. started over from scratch when they created Netscape. They didn't use any of the NCSA code. It was a ground up re-write.
SamA wants to take everything the non-profit built and use it directly in HIS for profit enterprise. Fuck him.
Who and what do you think Gruber is shilling for? I don't see Gruber saying anything that might tempt anyone to part from some of their money. He seems to be doing the diametrical opposite of shilling.
I'll bite because I find this compelling: if Apple is trying to build momentum for its Private Cloud Compute (https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/), it makes sense to try and get ahead of anything that could enable a competitor to build something similar. I'd think OpenAI getting billions shoveled their way in future investment just to throw darts at building any kind of moat would qualify, because for all Apple knows, OpenAI might eat their Private Cloud Compute lunch.
Granted I'm not sure there's much of anything to substantiate this, but I imagine Apple would know better from competitive intel.
(I feel a bit bad that my mind also immediately connects "Gruber" to "Apple" in less-than-savory ways, but alas, that's the reputation he built for himself.)
> I feel a bit bad that my mind also immediately connects "Gruber" to "Apple" in less-than-savory ways, but alas, that's the reputation he built for himself.
Yes this! I won't say how I've come to know, but if you have ever wondered "is this guy on the take from Apple as part of their fuckery?" - the answer is Yes.
The "Silicon Valley can do no bad" crowd. He's making it sound like Altman's just following a well trod path here when they're clearly doing something novel and actually quite evil.
He calls investing in OpenAI "wishful thinking" and a "Ponzi scheme", and as I read it, he's also criticizing the thing you're criticizing, though somewhat less harshly. He just seems to be under the mistaken impression that Mosaic Communications Corporation was a licensee of Mosaic like Spry was, which, well, you can see how that misunderstanding could have arisen.
> OpenAI’s board now stating “We once again need to raise more capital than we’d imagined” less than three months after raising another $6.6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion sounds alarmingly like a Ponzi scheme
Ponzi scheme. If he's shilling something I guess it's "shorting".
I don't know who this Gruber guy is, but it's relieving to hear at least someone talk some sense about the ludicrous levels of investment being poured into something that most users go "heh that's neat" and would never consider paying for.
He's in the "My guys can do now bad" gang. Always has been. Read his blog, it's 90% defending Big Tech and their abuses. He's especially bad about Apple, but all his angles are suspect.
SamA wants to take everything the non-profit built and use it directly in HIS for profit enterprise. Fuck him.