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Fantastic observations. I appreciate you mentioning them. You are totally right I'm colloquially using "Open Source" to basically mean code that is under a perm
by jppope 7y ago
Fantastic observations. I appreciate you mentioning them. You are totally right I'm colloquially using "Open Source" to basically mean code that is under a permissive license... and not really covering all the basis with the comment. important to consider.
- gus_massa 7y agoI think that the magic part of open source is that it is easy to fork, so the BDFL (or equivalent) must be nice. For example, in the node.js vs io.js fork or the OpenOffice vs LibreOffice fork. This ensure the community that they can continue with the project on their own if there is a big enough problem. If everyone must continue to pay the original project, it's not possible to make a meaningful fork.