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One of the reasons I appreciated academics in my youth was because of how international they were and their bias towards disseminating knowledge globally. I th
by abetusk 3y ago
One of the reasons I appreciated academics in my youth was because of how international they were and their bias towards disseminating knowledge globally.
I think the modern day equivalent is libre/free/open source. I encourage everyone to support libre/free/open source software, hardware and data.
- keepamovin 3y agoI agree we should spread knowledge and source code, but I don’t think open source always works. The reason seems to be because when you create an open system with no restrictions beyond an honor system, people and organizations take advantage of it. You need force, I just don’t think you need borders anymore.
- abetusk 3y agoI agree that FOSS isn't always the right tool but for maybe different reasons. In my opinion, FOSS works best when there's a slow moving target that allows for small, incremental additions to make it better. This is why FOSS and games tend to not be a good fit and what FOSS and server side infrastructure is a good fit. Also, in terms of "force", many FOSS licenses have reciprocity or even viral terms associated with them. Violations of that agreement can have legal consequences for organizations.
- keepamovin 3y agoTrue, but effective enforcement could be expensive. See that recent French case. 14 years to victory! I like your point about FOSS tho. I'll think about that. My current idea is that FOSS is good for utilities, or things you can plug in, but for full blown applications like my BrowserBox^0 is, or Andris Rienmann's EmailEngine^1, it's not so great. Tho, 'slow moving target' seems a good heuristic worth considering. Thank you! :) 0: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox 1: https://emailengine.app/ https://emailengine.app/