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I suppose I'm rather surprised to hear it done so flagrantly, if I am to explain my disgust at the use of language here. FOSS is a beautiful thing. How many peo

• hardwaresofton 6y ago
  So you'd rather I minced words? I did not disparage F/OSS, the exploitation was about what is happening right now and will continue to happen -- corporations (and have started to realize that they can leverage F/OSS for their own ends, whether it's releasing open core stuff, or using CDDLs and getting people to sign over commits (which are IP), or making the code permissively licensed but controlling the development through other means. I also believe F/OSS is a beautiful thing, which is why I try to look at what is happening with it optimistically and cynically. P.S. Example of "other means" -- I personally think this is the model that Kubernetes and some other large single-company-backed F/OSS projects is doing, they've essentially built bureaucracy which replicates the internal politics you'd find at a large company, and I think it'd be quite difficult for a regular contributor, no matter how ardent, to get a "board seat" if not backed by some large company. Kubernetes was a better tool than others, but Google also spent a lot of money to propel it forward.