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> "Open-source ... won and is winning every day. For profit code is written on top of open-source, every single day." Open source is not a popularity contest!
by ThrowawayR2 3y ago
> "Open-source ... won and is winning every day. For profit code is written on top of open-source, every single day."
Open source is not a popularity contest! Any slob could "win" massive adoption by giving away something of value for nothing.
The whole point of FOSS was to destroy the proprietary, closed-source software industry so that everyone could have access to all code. Copyleft and the GPL was intended to defeat copyright by snowballing into an ecosystem so unstoppable that proprietary software businesses would fold because they couldn't compete. FOSS has unequivocally failed at that.
- mordae 3y agoAll non-free OS vendors but Microsoft and Apple who specialize in user facing devices have already folded. And Microsoft will eventually fold as well because wine is just better at their own backwards compatibility game. There is a steady progress on the Godot / Blender front. Audio is lagging. There is a steady progress on the KiCad front. In 10 years, it will probably get openEMS integration. Almost nobody is licensing their programming languages anymore. Except for the silly low-code fad. It did not win yet.
- keyle 3y agoI see your point and I agree. I wasn't looking at it from this angle. My angle was advancing humanity, nothing regarding beating closed source counter parts.
- TeMPOraL 3y agoCommercial interests advance humanity just fine. We'd arguably be approximately in the same place where we are now, with or without open source - and possible even with better business models in tech than we have now (adtech, surveillance capitalism, SaaS).