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I wish we would admit that you can't have it all. You can't have a product that is open source with neutral foundation governance and also have that same produc

by wmf 7mo ago

I wish we would admit that you can't have it all. You can't have a product that is open source with neutral foundation governance and also have that same product be de facto proprietary. People have been pushing this bait-and-switch business model for too long.

jancsika 7mo ago
Conversely, I feel like a company with a cracker jack support team to match their sales team could profitably sell support for ALSA if they wanted to.
- layer8 7mo ago
  ALSA?
  - bhj 7mo ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Linux_Sound_Architect... (presumably)
    - layer8 7mo ago
      Thanks. I thought this was superseded a long time ago, but apparently the newer sound architectures build on top of it.
karel-3d 7mo ago
It was not really proprietary though? I don't like Collabora Office at all as a product (sorry, and I have tried) and the branding situation is super messy (sorry but it's true) but all the code is online.
- opan 7mo ago
  Which free software license was it under?
  - karel-3d 7mo ago
    formally AGPL but they add impossible conditions so it's not really AGPL