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I’ve got to agree with you here. While I personally agree with the people commenting about open source being about the license rather than governance, I do not

I’ve got to agree with you here. While I personally agree with the people commenting about open source being about the license rather than governance, I do not think that was always as widely accepted as it currently is in this comments section. I recall seeing a lot of hostility from people in the past about governance of a licensed project not being in line with ‘open source values,’ for example.

Shikadi 5y ago
"Open source values" is just a covert way of saying "RMS values"
- rpdillon 5y ago
  I don't think that's correct. Open Source as a term was created in reaction to Free Software, which is RMS's thing. See: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
  - Shikadi 5y ago
    It wasn't created as a reaction to free software, it was created as a way to differentiate from free software, starting with Netscape navigator. But there's the open source initiative, which somehow I wasn't aware of: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
    - rpdillon 5y ago
      > It wasn't created as a reaction to free software, it was created as a way to differentiate from free software I wanted to correct your statement without getting into an argument. I view an attempt to differentiate as a type of reaction.
      - Shikadi 5y ago
        If I'm being pedantic saying that it was a reaction to Netscape releasing under a license that didn't jive with the FSF, then your initial comment was also pedantic :P