Re:Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commerc...
by bjornsing on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @08:00PM
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>> We live in a very different world compared to 1989 when the GPL was first published
> Could you articulate which differences you feel are relevant please?
Mostly the sheer volume of open source that’s out there. I think FOSS makes a lot of sense for stuff that’s too much work for a small team and needed by a lot of people: operating system kernels, compilers, browsers, etc. That was the stuff to work on in 1987. Today most of that layer is “done”.
> Could you articulate which differences you feel are relevant please?
Mostly the sheer volume of open source that’s out there. I think FOSS makes a lot of sense for stuff that’s too much work for a small team and needed by a lot of people: operating system kernels, compilers, browsers, etc. That was the stuff to work on in 1987. Today most of that layer is “done”.