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Open source was always a corporate-friendly compromise, but seemed like some of the people involved had a lot of integrity. What we need is those open source p
by neilv 2y ago
Open source was always a corporate-friendly compromise, but seemed like some of the people involved had a lot of integrity.
What we need is those open source people with integrity to put the smack down on those willfully abusing and destroying the terms.
If you can't do it with trademarks/certifications/licensing/memberships/etc., do it with mainstream journalism. Like might be being done here, except The Register has long had rare insider knowledge, and is relatively niche. You need to get the message out to everyone who's not already in the know, including lawmakers.
(Incidentally, the FSF also has integrity, but, besides prompting open source by being zero-compromise -- which is fine in their case -- they have an additional challenge of seeming to be clinically incapable of advocacy in situations that are aligned.)
- pyeri 2y agoThat compromise thing was like eons ago when folks like Bruce Perens and ESR tried to tow that fine line between commercial open source and free libre paradigms and were successful to a great degree. But today, such nuance doesn't exist. The commercial ones have gone full commercial and making no qualms about it (thus the title of this post). If this attitude continues, all commercial interests in FOSS will be seen with high scepticism unless they have a proven track record of being a good actor.