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I understand the difficulty of trying to simplify very nuanced issues for a general audience, but The Times did a particularly poor job here. Open-source softw
by ctvo 7y ago
I understand the difficulty of trying to simplify very nuanced issues for a general audience, but The Times did a particularly poor job here.
Open-source software isn’t hard to explain: free software created in the open by many contributors with licenses on how it can be used.
From there: Amazon targets open source projects widely used with licenses that allow it to offer management of the software deployment as a service. This directly competes with some start-up models that rely on an open source license to draw in users, then offering them auxiliary services.
- tracer4201 7y agoIt sounds like these companies need to license their product so another company cannot enhance or modify the software and resell it. I don’t know the legal framework well enough to know how difficult that is, but it sounds like that’s what companies have started doing. On a side note - the NYT has a piece on any one of the tech companies about every single day. No doubt these companies do questionable things, but I question the Times motives and biases when they’re focused so much on one industry or a handful of companies. I spent almost two decades working in oil and gas before shifting my career to software in 2012. I don’t recall a time when the the Times was hyper focused on my industry then. Not that it excuses FB or Amazons behavior, but I do believe the Times has a personal interest in seeing these companies fail, as they compete with the Times.