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Open Source is not a business model, it is a development methodology — and that development methodology invites modifications by users under a license which uph
by rectang 6y ago
Open Source is not a business model, it is a development methodology — and that development methodology invites modifications by users under a license which upholds a set of conditions friendly to such modifications (spelled out in OSI's Open Source Definition).
Nobody has to write software that abuses its users with freakin' adware, proprietary or open source — and any creator who does so should be shunned. All the more so if they simultaneously abuse us and invite open source collaboration. This isn't starving people being driven to steal food.