SemiAnalysis 戏仿帖:虚构『2001 年微软 CEO 称开源操作系统危险』,实为讽刺当下开源 AI 危险论

JUNE 1, 2001
🚨MICROSOFT CEO: OPEN-SOURCE OPERATING SYSTEMS ARE DANGEROUS

$MSFT CEO Bill Gates told lawmakers that open-source operating systems such as Linux are "going down a very dangerous path." Transcript below ⬇️

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The scaling of open source operating systems, I think it's going down a very dangerous path. And again, if the path continues, I think we could get to a very dangerous place.

I think it's worth saying some things on Linux that are clear to all the experts, but I want to make sure is understood by this committee, which is when you control the operating system and you're shipping it, you have the ability to monitor its usage. It might be misused at one point, but then you can push an update. You can revoke a user's license. You can change what the system is willing to run.

When an operating system is released in an uncontrolled manner, by some guy compiling his own kernel in his basement, there's no ability to do that. It's entirely out of your hands. And so I think that should be attended to carefully.

There may be ways to release software open source so that it's harder to circumvent the licensing, but that's a much harder problem, and we should confront the advocates of this with that problem and challenge them to solve it.

Finally, I'd say open source is a little bit of a misnomer here, right? Open source normally refers to smaller developers who are iterating quickly, and I think that's a good thing. But here we're talking about something a little bit different, which is a more uncontrolled release of larger systems by, again, to your point, Senator Hawley, like much larger entities that pay tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars to develop them. I think we should think of that in a little bit of a different category, and their obligations in a little bit of a different category.
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