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Open source ideology is stuck in the 90s when the primary goal was to displace closed source lock-in platforms like Windows, and that ideology has become an unq
by api 7y ago
Open source ideology is stuck in the 90s when the primary goal was to displace closed source lock-in platforms like Windows, and that ideology has become an unquestionable dogma.
Today the primary goal should be to build an open software ecosystem independent from the SaaS / Cloud behemoths and with a business model that isn't based on surveillance.
Nothing is actually free. Open source was built on a social contract with certain "gift culture" assumptions. SaaS is violating that social contract by only taking and in a way that ultimately harms the 'freedom' goals of open source, so the social contract must evolve.