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OSI started open source as an industry-advocate organization, and "the whole original philosophy of open source" is industry advocacy. The FOSS shorthand has c
by pessimizer 3y ago
OSI started open source as an industry-advocate organization, and "the whole original philosophy of open source" is industry advocacy.
The FOSS shorthand has confused people. Now they're rootless, thinking that there was a some moral underpinning to open source. Free software is the one with the ethical philosophy. Open source is about public collaboration to lower costs and raise software quality.