Re:Post-Open Source
by zelphirkalt on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @04:06AM
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> i’d say free software died a while ago, and open source went horribly right.
It's rather the opposite. It's a slow grind, but slowly more free software is at the basis of things, due to its license nature and it growing more mature. At the same time I think the failure of open source software (if you can call it that ) was predictable and predicted long ago.
I am not sure you can call it a failure of open source, if open source never made sure, that some ideals are followed when using open source software. Perhaps we can talk about ideals and ideas in people's heads and what they thought open source was.
Re:Post-Open Source
by smartmic on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:08AM
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I would go one step further and say that among the mentioned post-open source alternatives, free licenses are the most mature, legally sound and promising candidates to fight corporate exploitation of developers.
It's rather the opposite. It's a slow grind, but slowly more free software is at the basis of things, due to its license nature and it growing more mature. At the same time I think the failure of open source software (if you can call it that ) was predictable and predicted long ago.
I am not sure you can call it a failure of open source, if open source never made sure, that some ideals are followed when using open source software. Perhaps we can talk about ideals and ideas in people's heads and what they thought open source was.