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I wrote this article not because I'm sure about the position and not because I want to celebrate the situation. I come from the camp who believed that open sour

I wrote this article not because I'm sure about the position and not because I want to celebrate the situation. I come from the camp who believed that open source is super beneficial and a positive movement (and to express the counter view is difficult for me). I'm just puzzled and confused: why is the open source community not furious with this situation as musicians and visual artists are? Why is it considered OK to continue feeding the machine with such a small push back from the open source communities?

JohnFen 2mo ago
> I come from the camp who believed that open source is super beneficial and a positive movement As do I. I've been very active in OSS for many years, because of the clear (to me) positive benefits it has for everyone. That's why it was hard and painful to retreat from it. I felt (and still feel) that my hand was forced. > why is the open source community not furious with this situation I'm not sure, but I do know that the OSS community has changed from what it used to be. Perhaps there's not as much of a unified mission or purpose as with the fine arts communities? Perhaps (and I slightly lean this direction) the OSS community has different ideals now that are more compatible with this? Perhaps it's a sense of resignation? I don't know. It's an interesting question. I do know that there are quite a few OSS folk who are, in fact, furious. It's just not an obvious majority of them, and most of the upset ones I've talked with have a sense that there's nothing they can do about it without withdrawing like I have. Their calculation is that it's still a net good to continue even with this problem.