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The most obvious sign that "Open source" is broken is that everyone uses that term and not Free Software.
by Starlevel001 5y ago
The most obvious sign that "Open source" is broken is that everyone uses that term and not Free Software.
- bityard 5y ago"Free Software" generally refers specifically to GPL-licensed software, which one of many popular "open source" licenses. (GNU claims that their use of the word "Free" refers to freedom, not price.) This (IMO, weird) debate seems to be around all kinds of open source projects.
- DarylZero 5y ago>"Free Software" generally refers specifically to GPL-licensed software, That is very incorrect. See https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
- CRConrad 5y agoOh, come now. It may be in principle incorrect... But in practice, not very.
- carapace 5y agoYou zing, but there's a grain of truth there, isn't it? "Free" software began when RMS wanted to fix his printer and got locked out by Xerox. "Open" software was an attempt to woo business to use free software but (arguably) threw the baby out with the bathwater by eliminating the "virality" of the GPL et. al., which was kind of the whole point (of "Free" ethos.) The whole Free vs. Open issue is effectively moot anyway since everybody uses proprietary closed systems. Even the FOSS folks use GitHub.