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		jprete on Jan 29, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its mode... I think people are looking for the term "freeware" although the connotations don't match.

sho_hn on Jan 29, 2025 [–]

Agreed, but the "connotations don't match" is mostly because the folks who chose to call it open source wanted the marketing benefits of doing so. Otherwise it'd match pretty well.

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