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> Whose goals are you talking about? OSI's? Yours? Some average person? Just what I said in the GP: anyone interested in FLOSS It may be the case that in 202

> Whose goals are you talking about? OSI's? Yours? Some average person? Just what I said in the GP: anyone interested in FLOSS It may be the case that in 2024, lots of people "do open source" as part of a business strategy. But I can assure that it was not so in 1986 (when I first encountered the GNU project) and it wasn't that way in 1999 when I started working on Ardour.

cryptonector 3y ago
> Just what I said in the GP: anyone interested in FLOSS Except we're not monolithic. We each have our reasons, and one person's rationale for open sourcing (and with what license) may vary by project and with time. > It may be the case that in 2024, lots of people "do open source" as part of a business strategy. But I can assure that it was not so in 1986 [...] Not explicitly, perhaps, but already in the 70s there was something of an understanding of mind-share. Building mind-share is easily (IMO) the most important reason to go open source for any given project, though there's others too.