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Spying in the name of national security and viral software licenses are unrelated. Further, as another point of irrelevancy, Open Source predates, is more popu
by new_realist 7y ago
Spying in the name of national security and viral software licenses are unrelated. Further, as another point of irrelevancy, Open Source predates, is more popular than, and is more influential than Free Software.
- saon 7y agoYou're right. But you have to recognize it is because corporations recognized they can commodify tons of their code to reduce costs and improve code quality and security. The linux foundation has dozens of multi-million-dollar partner corporations, whereas the FSF has maybe 5000 contributing members globally. But those corporations have no reason to guarantee that your computer will do what you want it to do, and many reasons to guarantee that it will do what they want it to do. This is a pervasive norm now, especially on hackernews where the demographic is primarily entrepreneurial web-only devs. Before deriding free software, ask yourself, who benefits from being able to read the source code of a program that restricts what ebooks you can read?
- alexvoda 7y agoMore popular and more influential I understand but please explain what you mean that it predates.