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Good that I did a CTRL+F before posting. It indeed seems to be a trend to try and supplant GPL software that has served well for decades with hip and trendy pr

Good that I did a CTRL+F before posting. It indeed seems to be a trend to try and supplant GPL software that has served well for decades with hip and trendy probably safer software, that meeeerely has a small catch ... MIT license. I wonder how these projects even attract enough people to be developed. Especially developers of a kernel should be aware of the license side of things, that has protected us all.

jeroenhd 3y ago
These days, I don't think people care about the principles that made Linux a success in the first place. From what I can tell, most people seem to take "open source" as "code I can reuse" rather than some kind of ideology about software freedom. Luckily, most Linux alternatives seem to go absolutely nowhere, so I doubt this project will have much of an impact beyond people thinking "huh, cool project".
- Qwertious 3y ago
  >rather than some kind of ideology about software freedom. And correctly so. "Open source" was explicitly intended to strip the ideology in order to more effectively market the bazaar development model to businesses. That's the difference between Open Source and Free Software.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Even though I advocate the GPL, I am not convinced Linux was a success because of the GPL. It's more a success because of the amazing determination and maintainer skills of Linus Torvalds and the group of enthusiasts that rallied around it in the early days. I have been using Linux (as a user, not a contributor) since pre 1.0 (0.9something on a 486, installed off floppies, fun times.) And it's just amazing where we've gotten to. Perhaps the GPL played a role in the early day in preventing a parasitical fork by a commercial entity, and by acting as a method of funneling in contributions. Hard to say for sure why Linux won over FreeBSD, though.

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Good that I did a CTRL+F before posting. It indeed seems to be a trend to try and supplant GPL software that has served well for decades with hip and trendy pr

by zelphirkalt 3y ago

jeroenhd 3y ago
These days, I don't think people care about the principles that made Linux a success in the first place. From what I can tell, most people seem to take "open source" as "code I can reuse" rather than some kind of ideology about software freedom. Luckily, most Linux alternatives seem to go absolutely nowhere, so I doubt this project will have much of an impact beyond people thinking "huh, cool project".
- Qwertious 3y ago
  >rather than some kind of ideology about software freedom. And correctly so. "Open source" was explicitly intended to strip the ideology in order to more effectively market the bazaar development model to businesses. That's the difference between Open Source and Free Software.
- cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  Even though I advocate the GPL, I am not convinced Linux was a success because of the GPL. It's more a success because of the amazing determination and maintainer skills of Linus Torvalds and the group of enthusiasts that rallied around it in the early days. I have been using Linux (as a user, not a contributor) since pre 1.0 (0.9something on a 486, installed off floppies, fun times.) And it's just amazing where we've gotten to. Perhaps the GPL played a role in the early day in preventing a parasitical fork by a commercial entity, and by acting as a method of funneling in contributions. Hard to say for sure why Linux won over FreeBSD, though.