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How did the free software movement allow a private commercial business to obtain so much power over it?

• codetwelve 7y ago
  Private commercial businesses do this, they fool you with their marketing and make you think that their product is also free and open source. Github's branding and marketing are to thank. And the blame also goes to us and other developers for not seeing this.
  • acqq 7y ago
    Yes, the similar stories happen again and again. As a good reflection, there was that comics with the "world tiniest open source violin" https://xkcd.com/743/ https://xkcd.com/743/
• CalChris 7y ago
  Freely. Or cheaply. Or maybe just conveniently. Linus is worth an estimated $150M and he has a lot of power over it. It’s a conundrum.
• mempko 7y ago
  You can thank O'Reilly and friends who undermined it by creating the Open Source movement.