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Open source means you can read the source. The idea that all my work must be FOSS is somebody else's ideal, and one that has kept a lot of people I know from g

Open source means you can read the source. The idea that all my work must be FOSS is somebody else's ideal, and one that has kept a lot of people I know from getting paid. Meanwhile, plenty of code, probably most running your world, is purely in the dark and definitely not open source. Whatever you think about "license proliferation", that's like, your opinion. What world are you from that I can't have my own license for my own work? What kind of lemmings notion is it that I should only use a well known, open source license, especially a license that explicitly gives my work away uncompensated to random people on the internet? You are so brainwashed with slogan terminology that you think Open Source has exactly one meaning, and that meaning is not even that the source code is open? Jesus, this forum is retarding sometimes. FOH with yr downvotes. Edit, furthermore, I have dozens of totally FOSS code projects out there, downloaded millions of time per month. Is your business 100% open source, down to how to track your users? Stop telling people what they should do out here.

angel_j 6y ago
This needs more downvotes.
josephcsible 6y ago
> Open source means you can read the source. No, that's "visible source" or "source available". Read the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd It even addresses your misconception right up front: "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." > The idea that all my work must be FOSS is somebody else's ideal, and one that has kept a lot of people I know from getting paid. You can get paid even if everything you build is FOSS. Look at Red Hat. > Whatever you think about "license proliferation", that's like, your opinion. What world are you from that I can't have my own license for my own work? What kind of lemmings notion is it that I should only use a well known, open source license, especially a license that explicitly gives my work away uncompensated to random people on the internet? Even if your bespoke license were open source, there's a very good chance that it would be incompatible with other licenses like the GPL, thus creating more ZFS-on-Linux sort of problems.

angel_j 6y ago

This needs more downvotes.

josephcsible 6y ago

> Open source means you can read the source. No, that's "visible source" or "source available". Read the Open Source Definition: https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd It even addresses your misconception right up front: "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." > The idea that all my work must be FOSS is somebody else's ideal, and one that has kept a lot of people I know from getting paid. You can get paid even if everything you build is FOSS. Look at Red Hat. > Whatever you think about "license proliferation", that's like, your opinion. What world are you from that I can't have my own license for my own work? What kind of lemmings notion is it that I should only use a well known, open source license, especially a license that explicitly gives my work away uncompensated to random people on the internet? Even if your bespoke license were open source, there's a very good chance that it would be incompatible with other licenses like the GPL, thus creating more ZFS-on-Linux sort of problems.