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‘Tis the Open Source Season

From all of us here at eRacks Systems to all of you, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Season.

And here’s a great article about how Linux can help Santa:

https://betanews.com/2024/12/22/how-santa-claus-could-transform-christmas-with-linux

December 24th, 2024

Posted In: Greetings, Linux, News, Open Source

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Open-Washing AI and the REAL Open AI Definition

Open-Washing AI

I saw both of these within 24 hours –

“Open-Washing” is a thing these days, many companies are trying to spin their AI offerings as “Open”, and piggyback on the brand image of Open Source, when actually they’re really not that open. Some even have it in their name – eg, “Open AI”, which isn’t…

In response, the Open Source Initiative released the OSAID “Open Source AI Definition” – Which we have endorsed. More on that in our next post, stay tuned…

Here’s the article, from yesterday: The illusion of AI openness

December 20th, 2024

Posted In: AI, Open Source, Reviews, Technology

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Hardware Servers Less than 1/10th the cost of Cloud

We’ve known this since the beginning of when the “Cloud” momentum started in the marketplace a decade or two ago, but it’s always refreshing to see the media coverage supporting this –

DHH (Ruby on Rails Creator, Basecamp, 37Signals Founder) corroborates it:

37Signals CTO: $600k of servers will save $7 million • The Register:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/22/cloud_repatration_savings_calculated_basecamp/

December 8th, 2024

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