Source: The Information
Summary
Delve, a company that offers a platform for data discovery and analytics, is facing allegations that it violated the open source license of its customer, Sim.ai. According to the allegations, Delve took Sim.ai’s tool and passed it off as its own, without proper attribution or permission. The allegations were made by Sim.ai’s CEO, who claimed that Delve’s actions were a clear violation of the open source license. Delve has not commented on the allegations.
Our Reading
The announcement sounds ambitious.
Delve’s alleged actions are a familiar tale of tech companies rebranding existing ideas and calling it innovation. The company’s supposed “new” tool is just a rehashed version of Sim.ai’s open source project. This is not the first time a company has been accused of violating open source licenses, and it won’t be the last. The real question is, what’s new about this story? Delve’s actions are just another example of the tech industry’s “innovate by iteration” approach. It’s not innovation, it’s just iteration.
Author: Evan Null
