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Doubt it. So many projects these days are made up of multiple corporations and community contributions that I believe open source has basically won out it a lo
by edgyquant 5y ago
Doubt it. So many projects these days are made up of multiple corporations and community contributions that I believe open source has basically won out it a lot of places. Things might not be libre like Stallman wanted but open source is here to stay.
- pjmlp 5y agoTry to get the source code of Android for your own device, most SaaS applications or most embedded appliances.
- edgyquant 5y agoYet most of these run on open source code. That there are thousands of independent actors exploiting, and developing, these tools is one of the reasons open source has been so successful.
- pjmlp 5y agoOpen source has existed since forever on tapes and cards exchanged between university students, programming listings on computer clubs magazines for home microcomputers, source code delivered on the professional version of development tools,... Nothing new really, unless you want to be pendantic on the real meaning of "open source" as defined by Open Source Initiative. At the end of the day it won't matter, because those developers have bills to pay so eventually idealism gets replaced with real life.