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Many of the most useful open source projects are corporate driven. The only thing holding those companies to the usual set of licenses and provisions rather tha

Many of the most useful open source projects are corporate driven. The only thing holding those companies to the usual set of licenses and provisions rather than something that would be much less open is the Schelling fence of the “open source” definition. Throw the door open to a thousand different idiosyncratic licenses and they too will abandon Apache, BSD, and MIT.

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The reasons corporations lead open source projects is to undercut their (potential) competitors by commoditising their complements. OSI licenses are used in such projects because they allow the businesses to achieve the above. Open-source has started to become a weapons in the arsenal of Goliath against the David who may want one-day challenge it. If your only agenda is being free to fix your printer'a drivers [1], that may not be a deal-breaker; but many others are looking at something that provides justice alongside freedom. [2] [1]: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html [2]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2020/07/03/Programmer-Power.html https://writing.kemitchell.com/2020/07/03/Programmer-Power.h...