Jason Antic

Cowards. You're all worried that someone's going to come along and do your own work better than you can, or steal your little secrets that don't really matter in the long run. Have some faith in your work! The internet will be happy to hound a company that breaks your license.

Open source is for large companies that need a community of experts around their tech stack from which they can recruit. They don't open source for charity or kindness it's a trick.

Scientists make their work available for others to use. Why? Doesn't it matter? Especially when we profess to be machine learning researchers (in some sense)?

You're all basically advocating for "Take what you want, take advantage of anyone who's stupid enough to make their code public, and then close off your own work so that no one can build on it." Am I wrong?

For scientists one of the rewards in this game is citations which will raise their standing and give them access to bigger grants and more interesting research. In an ever increasing avalanche of papers being published sharing the code is one way to actually get noticed.

Yep, totally different incentives, protections, etc.

Well... *dramatic flair* It sounds like I'll be the first one to break that mold, then. You can feel happy and safe that you've risked nothing to help anyone else. @quasimondo will have his art, and you'll have your business, and it'll be all to yourselves.