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This is not helpful: > This helped us realize that there is a vocal minority who still, for very good reasons, finds this phrase protected and specific. It's
by onli 2y ago
This is not helpful:
> This helped us realize that there is a vocal minority who still, for very good reasons, finds this phrase protected and specific.
It's not a vocal minority who fights misuse of the term open source. It's basically everyone invested in this movement, even if FOSS has come to be a clearer wording in my circles. It's a minority of business men trying to misapply the term to have their cake and eat it too, to create "open source" software without giving the freedom rights that define open source.
Just call it source available then and live with the negative connotation. They are justified.
Also:
> Today, nearly all open source software is written by or financed by corporations.
It's always a bit sad and funny when people living in their bubble lose the grasp on reality. The statement is of course not true at all, the big majority of open source software continues to be written by free developers in their free time. But someone from that side of the business world wouldn't know that. What is true is that many big projects are controlled by corporations, and there is corporate influence on the biggest independent projects, like Linux. But that's not what the statement said.
- johnea 2y agoWhat ever you do, never ever say "free software"! The VC's will send a black escalade to raid your house in the middle of the night! 8-) What's in question here is the origin of the "free software" vs "open source" argument. "Open source" was from the beginning a tactic to seize the development model of "free software" and bend it to a coprporate profit motive. What could be better than getting a bunch of idealistic geks to write your s/w for you for free? A very real and practical thing that has been lost in the vilification of "free software" is the idea that a group of user's develop s/w that they need to use. As opposed to s/w that is developed to serve as a corporate product for sale. Thee are so many examples where "free software" could serve: such as a standards based word processor. Who would have thought the corp drones would be in the process of being drug into a subscription based version of M$ word in the new millenium 8-) Even after M$ being sued for anti-trust over the proprietary doc format. Don't worry, it's only going to get worse for here on out...