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Shouldn’t Open Source be considered the 8th wonder of the world? - OSS allowed an entire industry to flourish, - It has had so many contributions that it is e

Shouldn’t Open Source be considered the 8th wonder of the world? - OSS allowed an entire industry to flourish, - It has had so many contributions that it is easily the category which is the biggest benevolence of the world, and possibly the biggest achievement of humanity, - It allowed the entire world to go securely on the internet (launch a Debian and it’s secure and up to very high professional standards without effort, try doing that in the legal field), - Its results are permanent. In 2100, documents written in Office 365 or Adobe will be lost, but they’ll be able to recompile LibreOffice, Chrome (at least Webkit) or Wordpress. Benefits of OSS accrue over time, as opposed to closed-source software which is sold under closed license and DRM.

selfhoster11 5y ago
> Its results are permanent. In 2100, documents written in Office 365 or Adobe will be lost, but they’ll be able to recompile LibreOffice, Chrome (at least Webkit) or Wordpress. Benefits of OSS accrue over time, as opposed to closed-source software which is sold under closed license and DRM. In practice, I think that only entirely cloud based ecosystems will be lost to time. As long as the requisite hardware can be emulated and there is an archived version of a local viewer, it's possible to interpret a closed source format document. People already do it with WordStar and retro games.