Re:We’re in a brave, new post open source world
by anonbanker on Thursday January 28, 2016 @08:18PM
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Free Software is just as strong as it always has been. It's now swimming in a larger pond of "Free enough".
If all software is open by default (pretty much the chinese "gonkai" concept), that is a wonderful start. it means proprietary software is losing, and means that working on/with proprietary software is an evolutionary dead-end.
But I think, especially for software that secures our individual rights/liberties, Free Software (in the GPL sense) will still need to exist with much the same toothy license as today.
If all software is open by default (pretty much the chinese "gonkai" concept), that is a wonderful start. it means proprietary software is losing, and means that working on/with proprietary software is an evolutionary dead-end.
But I think, especially for software that secures our individual rights/liberties, Free Software (in the GPL sense) will still need to exist with much the same toothy license as today.