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> Rather, businesses need to take a step back, understand the culture and priorities of open source and then try to fit in. Well, open source was created in or

by jabl 6y ago

> Rather, businesses need to take a step back, understand the culture and priorities of open source and then try to fit in. Well, open source was created in order to make (some of) the ideas of the hippy free software movement more acceptable to businesses, so, I think you got that part backwards. At the cost of losing the free software ideals, open source has gone mainstream, and nowadays a large fraction of the work that goes into big established open source projects is done by paid developers working for corporations. Thus, to a very large extent, open source IS businesses. They are making it in their image, to fit their needs. I guess the lone hacker/activist has been sidelined, and others with more resources have taken over the show.

bibryam 6y ago
One does not replace the others though. There are still independent hackers doing a great deal of open source (Let's put them in the free software category). That is especially true for the node community. There are many projects build by full time employees dominated by 1-2 companies (a good example here are the ASF projects). There are gigantic projects that are possible to be developed in high pace only through collaboration even between competitors (Kubernetes in CNCF) There won't be only one way of doing OSS. But I believe there will be again a rise of independent software hackers and this time they will be better equipped with tools for automation, distribution, funding, marketing, etc.