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We’re in a brave, new post open source world
- anonbanker 11y agoFree 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.
- vemy 11y agoThis is why using GPL is important.
- JdeBP 11y agoDuplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10990719 .