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Tons of people try to come up with more "meaning" behind open source, maybe they're bored and are trying to find a new religion or something. Open source has a
by Mikeb85 4y ago
Tons of people try to come up with more "meaning" behind open source, maybe they're bored and are trying to find a new religion or something.
Open source has always just been about the license... If you use OSS and distribute it, you make your changes available. That's it. There is no higher meaning. If people want to do more that's on them, if they don't, that's ok.
- diffeomorphism 4y agoThat is a weird perspective. Free software has always been about freedom and licensing just as a technical aspect. At some point open source rebranded this and put more emphasis on the advantages this gives you as a company as opposed to as a user (which free software highlighted). So, legally speaking it is just about the license, but humans exist and have opinions. For instance people like projects to be developed in the open and not android's throw over the wall. That doesn't make it not open source, but you have people complaining that it is not "proper open source". > If they don't that is okay. Legally yes, in practice people grumble and won't contribute.
- Mikeb85 4y ago> Legally yes, in practice people grumble and won't contribute. Let's be real, that happens no matter what (both the grumbling and not-contributing). People bitch about literally every open source project I can think of... Linux (Linus is too mean), Systemd (not Unix-y enough), Gnome (too pretty and not enough features like KDE), KDE (too many features and not pretty), anything RH/IBM/Amazon/Google/Oracle/Apple/MS sponsors, etc... I honestly can't think of a single open source project that people don't bitch about so yes, I don't really care about their opinions. Open source is what it is and you use it or don't.