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What do we want from open source? For a long time, foss movement rallied around building desktop experience, but now given the prevalence of macs and non-deskto
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
What do we want from open source? For a long time, foss movement rallied around building desktop experience, but now given the prevalence of macs and non-desktop computing this seems to be no longer the case.
What kind of open source should we incentivize?
For example, do we really need to incentivize ten thousands of ruby on rails testing frameworks?
I would argue that grassroot open source needs help in discovery and reaching their audience more than they need "incentivizing", and discovery means filtering.
- goldfeld 13y agoI think we should be incentivizing open source software and infrastructure that promotes peer-based architectures and descentralization of the control over data, for a start. How is open source going to displace Google as the search leader? That would be a good start, and things like PRISM would be less the powerful for it.