> Any project that sees a semblance of success will be cloned overnight many times over and will find itself competing with its own copies.
wasn't this always a risk with open source? also isn't that part of the point of open source? undoubtedly there are some forks out there that have become the new baseline. Besides, survival of the fittest. If some vibe-coded clone can compete, can manage updates, win market share, produce value superseding the original does that version not deserve it's share?
Personally I don't think it's all that trivial to maintain a large FOSS project, that vibe coded clones will simply not keep up because they were low effort and when they realize even with all the AI tools in the world it's still work to maintain a product they'll die off.
> what motivation remains to continue publishing as open source?
What motivation was there ever? prestige? money? accolades? Is that motivation actually gone?
Also closed source is not a protection anymore. look at Jev, they didn't even release the weights but everyone and their mother has a Jev-like model either out in the wild or in the works.
I feel that open source already has a big ecosystem that has formed around a lot of older software. It does make managing what is good and what is bad more difficult considering outward flux of these programs is a lot higher and most of them are just straight up copy-paste of already existing software without any benefit over the already existing software. It very likely is gonna be a cycle where we will see a surge of these software and they will slowly die out with no support or updates provided as it happened before but at a faster rate now.
I publish and use more open source than I ever did in the past.
> Any project that sees a semblance of success will be cloned overnight many times over and will find itself competing with its own copies.
wasn't this always a risk with open source? also isn't that part of the point of open source? undoubtedly there are some forks out there that have become the new baseline. Besides, survival of the fittest. If some vibe-coded clone can compete, can manage updates, win market share, produce value superseding the original does that version not deserve it's share?
Personally I don't think it's all that trivial to maintain a large FOSS project, that vibe coded clones will simply not keep up because they were low effort and when they realize even with all the AI tools in the world it's still work to maintain a product they'll die off.
> what motivation remains to continue publishing as open source?
What motivation was there ever? prestige? money? accolades? Is that motivation actually gone?
Also closed source is not a protection anymore. look at Jev, they didn't even release the weights but everyone and their mother has a Jev-like model either out in the wild or in the works.
I feel that open source already has a big ecosystem that has formed around a lot of older software. It does make managing what is good and what is bad more difficult considering outward flux of these programs is a lot higher and most of them are just straight up copy-paste of already existing software without any benefit over the already existing software. It very likely is gonna be a cycle where we will see a surge of these software and they will slowly die out with no support or updates provided as it happened before but at a faster rate now.