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Alessio Fanelli
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Alessio Fanelli's personal blog at alessiofanelli.com covers ai, programming and startups. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “LLaMA2 isn't “Open Source” – and why it doesn't matter”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post in debates over whether Meta's Llama 2 counts as open source. It argues Llama 2 is not open source, and commenters cite it when making that point.
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Alessio Fanelli's blog
Most-linked posts?
- LLaMA2 isn't “Open Source” – and why it doesn't matter2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-07-21
What Hacker News says?
The author clearly doesn't understand the term open source as it is used for software in the first place as evidenced by the completely nonesensical diagram [0]. And no, the term doesn't need to evolve even if parasites want to in order to ride of the goodwill fostered by the open source community. [0] https://www.alessiofanelli.com/images/open-models.png
Comment linking /images/open-models.png
on “LLaMA2 isn't “Open Source” – and why it doesn't matter”Submitted LLaMA2 isn't “Open Source” – and why it doesn't matter as a story · 28 points
HN discussionThe license has a bunch of terms and restrictions that make it incompatible with accepted definitions of open source software. LLaMA2 isn't "Open Source" - and why it doesn't matter https://www.alessiofanelli.com/blog/llama2-isnt-open-source Meta can call Llama open source as much as it likes, but that doesn't mean it is https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/21/llama_is_not_open_sou... Software licenses masquerading a…
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on “Why Did Meta Open-Source Llama 2?”Submitted Enabling "Maximum Enterprise Utilization" with AI as a story · 4 points
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