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For me the biggest issue the OSI has today is that the phrase "open source" is becoming disconnected from the Open Source Definition, some of that is deliberate
by pabs3 3y ago
For me the biggest issue the OSI has today is that the phrase "open source" is becoming disconnected from the Open Source Definition, some of that is deliberate and some of that is people who knew the phrase but not the definition. The language around FOSS is evolving for the worse.
https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd
https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases https://github.com/ssddanbrown/Open-Source-Confusion-Cases
- pabs3 3y agoThe biggest willful misuse of the "open source" phrase seem to come from those who haven't internalised the sentence "Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation". https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your-monopoly.html https://drewdevault.com/2021/01/20/FOSS-is-to-surrender-your...
- iraqmtpizza 3y agoand Free Software is software that doesn't come with a pile of inane rules that bind the recipient. i.e. it's not a virus which attempts to extract as much value from the recipient as possible.