Re:Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source commu...
by mbesto on Monday April 29, 2019 @12:50PM
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> a lot of free-software/open source software are licensed that way because the projects themselves are ideologically predisposed.
Does GNU audit every contributor to its libraries to ensure they only personally use open source hardware/software? If not, then I'd have a big issue the ideology stance of these organizations.
> So, I mean, you get to choose, if you go the Linux way and say "we are open source for pragmatic reasons" then there's no doublethink. If you say "we believe that all software should be free" while simultaneously forcing your users to contribute using closed source software on a proprietary platform then then you're not practicing your ideology, and worse; you're forcing that non-practice on your developers and users.
With that same rationale, it's also doublethink if every system that an ideologically-aligned FOSS isn't using FOSS based systems. And realistically, this is not how the market works and makes it extremely limiting to find contributors to maintain systems in longevity.
Kind of reminds me of the discussion around people going personally carbon-neutral. Are you going to realistically audit every interaction you have every day to ensure the level of carbon you are consuming? No, you look at the largest/most material areas that you can control and use alternatives there.
Does GNU audit every contributor to its libraries to ensure they only personally use open source hardware/software? If not, then I'd have a big issue the ideology stance of these organizations.
> So, I mean, you get to choose, if you go the Linux way and say "we are open source for pragmatic reasons" then there's no doublethink. If you say "we believe that all software should be free" while simultaneously forcing your users to contribute using closed source software on a proprietary platform then then you're not practicing your ideology, and worse; you're forcing that non-practice on your developers and users.
With that same rationale, it's also doublethink if every system that an ideologically-aligned FOSS isn't using FOSS based systems. And realistically, this is not how the market works and makes it extremely limiting to find contributors to maintain systems in longevity.
Kind of reminds me of the discussion around people going personally carbon-neutral. Are you going to realistically audit every interaction you have every day to ensure the level of carbon you are consuming? No, you look at the largest/most material areas that you can control and use alternatives there.