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I feel like what I liked about open source, back in the 90s when I was in high school, was the concept and ideals around the GPL. Linux was my primary OS all th
by djsumdog 8y ago
I feel like what I liked about open source, back in the 90s when I was in high school, was the concept and ideals around the GPL. Linux was my primary OS all through University. I wrote this about OSS a while back:
https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source-in-community-and-enterprise-software/ https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source...
I've worked for an "open source" shop that made no differentiation on licenses (GPL vs BSDL). They did a lot of consulting/contracting and although they did release OSS code, a lot of times it was for a project that died off or was deprecated. Meanwhile, Apple has actively been trying to remove GPL code from their OS.
I know Stallman does agree with support license based companies liked Redhat, but what are his opinions on Commercial vs Enterprise setups like Gitlab? (Even with Gitlab, the Enterprise version is open source; you just can't legally run it without a license ... which is an interesting model for sure).
- Tijdreiziger 8y agoGitLab Enterprise is _not_ open source. https://about.gitlab.com/installation/ce-or-ee/ https://about.gitlab.com/installation/ce-or-ee/
- quadrangle 8y agoTrue, but that's because the comment you are replying to is being erroneous and sloppy with the term "open source". GitLab EE is source-available while not meeting the full "open source" definition.
- Tijdreiziger 8y agoAfter Googling some more I see now that GitLab's source is indeed publically viewable [0] (I was under the impression that it's not). [0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee