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Paris Marx invited me to his influential [Tech Won’t Save Us](

) podcast to connect two seemingly distinct stories: The WordPress collapse (that I also talked with Hagen about on [his podcast](

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Podcast: "Digital Infrastructure and Why Open Source Is Not Enough Anymore"

So Hagen Terschüren, a German journalist who does a lot of work on tech- and internet related topics has his own new podcast that he invited me to...

)) and the new OSI “Open Source AI Definition” ([that is not Open Source at all](

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Does Open Source AI really exist?

The OSI has presented their definition of Open Source AI and a closer reading only shows that "Open Source AI" probably just isn't a thing tha...

)). I think we have actually reached the limitations of what the Open Source term and concept can do for us and I am not sure it’s enough for the future. Because software projects for the commons and a sort of social good need to face the fact that they are political and therefore need to include actual political representation of alls stakeholders as well as democratic and transparent modes of decision making (at least when reaching a certain traction/user base). It was a blast to get to talk to Paris again, you can check the episode out at the [Tech Won’t Save Us episode page](

Tech Won't Save Us

The Corruption of Open Source w/ tante - Tech Won’t Save Us

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