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> The political goal was to give users absolute control over their computational environments No, that was Free Software. Open Source was created as a reaction
by icebraining 7y ago
> The political goal was to give users absolute control over their computational environments
No, that was Free Software. Open Source was created as a reaction to that, with the goal of removing the ethical implications and making it "business friendly". And it succeeded, unfortunately.
See: "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software"
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....