Comment Distracted: Abuse/Commercialisation of open source (Score 3, Interesting) 366
A commercial software company is billing many academic institutions using open source software and may not be properly acknowledging or contributing royalties to the project and its authors.
The original author had made a controversial blog post, but their sentiment was aimed at obfuscation, lies, and deceit about the technologies being proprietary, and being approved for use by those instutitions. Their post summarises with Audits audits...
The motherboard website is spinning the original post, but they did some useful work:
"On its website, Proctorio claims that it uses “proprietary facial detection” technology. It also says that it uses OpenCV products, although not which products or what for. When Motherboard asked the company whether it uses OpenCV’s models for facial recognition, Meredith Shadle, a spokesperson for Proctorio, did not answer directly. Instead, she sent a link to Proctorio’s licenses page, which includes a license for OpenCV."
The original author had made a controversial blog post, but their sentiment was aimed at obfuscation, lies, and deceit about the technologies being proprietary, and being approved for use by those instutitions. Their post summarises with Audits audits...
The motherboard website is spinning the original post, but they did some useful work:
"On its website, Proctorio claims that it uses “proprietary facial detection” technology. It also says that it uses OpenCV products, although not which products or what for. When Motherboard asked the company whether it uses OpenCV’s models for facial recognition, Meredith Shadle, a spokesperson for Proctorio, did not answer directly. Instead, she sent a link to Proctorio’s licenses page, which includes a license for OpenCV."
