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> …the only way I can foresee open source working in the way the purists want… Well the point of open source is it works however the person opening the work wa
by chasd00 5y ago
> …the only way I can foresee open source working in the way the purists want…
Well the point of open source is it works however the person opening the work wants. There’s a license compatible with every philosophy out there. Take your pick.
Open source isn’t broken because it can’t really break at all. For something to break it would have to have a concrete form to begin with.
- secondcoming 5y agoThis is great if you have the financial resources to find and legally pursue licence violators.
- cube00 5y agoEspecially internationally
- fartcannon 5y agoEven if the licenses are abused, there will still be free and open source software. It's a beautiful idea that won't die as long as there are tinkerers in the world.
- mwfunk 5y agoAgreed. It's only broken if there were some ideal Utopian open source world that we were falling short of, where if only everyone can work out some issues, then that world will come into existence. When people are growing up it's easy to get swept up in ideas like, "if only everyone saw things the way I did, everything would be perfect and so much better than it is right now". There will always be lots of conflicting ideas about how software should be developed and distributed and so far none of them have proven so effective that all of the others have fallen by the wayside. IMO the best anyone can do is advocate for whatever makes the most sense to them, but not make the mistake of thinking that anyone has all the answers.