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Yes, as we all know, open source software is a failed experiment, a cesspit of "anarchy".
by andrepd 6y ago
Yes, as we all know, open source software is a failed experiment, a cesspit of "anarchy".
- EGreg 6y agoAs well as science, language and other human endeavors. No one is in charge! I’m glad society advanced so much from secret alchemy cults with their “intellectual property” protections on their secrets.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoThat’s a good description. A successful cesspit of anarchy.
- jbman223 6y agoMost open source software is neither decentralized nor publicly owned.
- TuringTest 6y agoAll of it is, otherwise it wouldn't meet the 4 freedoms that define open source. The 'project' maintaining the software may be centralized, but all its users "own" the software in the sense that the don't need to ask permission to the maintainer, and they can create their own modifications.
- hojjat12000 6y agoYou're mixing a few different things. Free software and open source are different. and for each of them there are hundreds of different licenses that allows you to do something but not another.
- TuringTest 6y agoFree software and open source are different marketing strategies for the same concept. The most commonly understood meaning for both terms is the same, from the very moment the Open Source Initiative was created.
- vlovich123 6y agoNot open source. Open source is a resounding success. The marketplace with the problems is advertising. We need to enact laws banning selling of third party data and make leaks a liability (perhaps even one that automatically pierces the normal corporate veil and opens VPs and up to personal liability if there was any circumvention initiated encouraged by them). Then businesses have to actually decide if the liability is worth it for them vs a free-for-all market that intelligence agencies and criminal enterprises are primarily funding.