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It's the same with Linux. If it would be super popular and mainstream, the corporations would destroy everything that's fun with it in order to sell you things
by peakaboo 5y ago
It's the same with Linux. If it would be super popular and mainstream, the corporations would destroy everything that's fun with it in order to sell you things and track your data.
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoThey already do. Not everything even in the server segment is unicorns and rainbows; a lot of corporate “fauxpen source” is SDKs for proprietary hosted services, and paid staff working on those “OSS” offerings is more about “building a vibrant community” (read: extracting free labor) and making sure the only contributions accepted are those that narrowly match their internal roadmaps (which reinforces my previous point). I mean, it’s still better than closed source SDKs with bugs unfixed for years and books written about working around them, but that would be a pretty low bar anyway.
- lioeters 5y agoTIL: > fauxpen source > Etymology: a term invented by Phil Marsosudiro at a dinner party in North Carolina > Date: 2 May 2009 > A description of software that claims to be open source, but lacks the full freedoms required by the Open Source Definition. http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php > synonyms: see open core, neo-proprietary > antonyms: see Linux kernel, Apache, OpenNMS https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-vs-fauxpen https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/open-vs-fauxpen (2009)
- notanzaiiswear 5y agoLike Android?
- squarefoot 5y agoSorta, although to get to that point it had to lose 99% of what it needs to call it Linux.