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There is a spectrum of perspectives on this topic. The "free software" maximalist side would argue that there are two ideas, free "as in beer" and free "as in f
by redwood 4y ago
There is a spectrum of perspectives on this topic. The "free software" maximalist side would argue that there are two ideas, free "as in beer" and free "as in freedom"... and they will typically say that anything that isn't free "as in freedom" does not conform to their view of what is in the spirit of open source. Then there's the other side of the perspective which argues that open source is being strip-mined by hyperscalers and that new licenses with very specific classes of restrictions aimed at protecting the developers are needed. That latter group typically would argue that the OSI is realistically controlled by the hyperscalers and hence it's all quite nuanced. It's a classic political debate with extremes on all sides and the rest of us having to survive somewhere in the middle