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Basically, it has already happened (sans GPL, mostly) and the result is that very few "cloud" vendors extract all value, with further development not getting fu
by tannhaeuser 7y ago
Basically, it has already happened (sans GPL, mostly) and the result is that very few "cloud" vendors extract all value, with further development not getting funded. Not much new F/OSS has been released in recent years, with developers looking at services instead.
- sebst 7y agoThis is an interesting point. The open source movement roots in a time where cloud computing was normal, back then called terminal server. Licences like the AGPL try to tackle this "problem" which feels like a design issue because in spite of having terminal servers nobody could imagine today's "cloud". Maybe the next years will fence us in walled gardens until a new idea of open collaboration will free us again. A bit like browser wars? Or, is software too ubiquitous today to withstand the forces of capitalism?