alt Hacker NewsCal.com is going closed source
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Risk tolerance and emotional capacity differs from one individual to another, while I may disagree with the decision I am able to respect the decision.
That said, I think it’s important to try and recognize where things are from multiple angles rather than bucket things from your filter bubble alone, fear sells and we need to stop buying into it.
This seems dishonest, like someone is forcing the decision for other reasons, and they're using security and AI as a distraction.
Good for them. I’m sure they saw the writing on the wall when Monday.com was cloned. This is the right move.
This is the future now that AI is here. Publishing is going to be dead, look at the tea leaves, how many engineers are claiming they don’t use package managers anymore and just generate dependencies? 5 years and no one will be making an argument for open source or blogging.
Security through obscurity has been known to be a faulty approach for nearly 200 years. Yet here we are.
Seems like it's just being used as a convenient pretense to back out of open-source.
This has to be the most bullshit reason I've seen.. if AI can be pointed and find vulnerabilities then do it yourself before publishing the code.
You know what?
Great move.
Open-source supporters don't have a sustainable answer to the fact that AI models can easily find N-day vulnerabilities extremely quickly and swamp maintainers with issues and bug-reports left hanging for days.
Unfortunately, this is where it is going and the open-source software supporters did not for-see the downsides of open source maintenance in the age of AI especially for businesses with "open-core" products.
Might as well close-source them to slow the attackers (with LLMs) down. Even SQLite has closed-sourced their tests which is another good idea.
This is some truly exceptionally clownish attention seeking nonsense. The rationale here is complete nonsense, they just wanted to put "because AI" after announcing their completely self-serving decision. If AI cyber offense is such a concern, recognize your role as a company handling truckloads of highly sensitive information and actually fix your security culture instead of just obscuring it.