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> I'm often pointing out in my recent talks how complex and treacherous the Open Source and Free Software political climate became in the last decade. The clim
by zak_mc_kracken 11y ago
> I'm often pointing out in my recent talks how complex and treacherous the Open Source and Free Software political climate became in the last decade.
The climate would be a lot more relaxed if the open source community picked spokespersons who are less fanatical and a bit more level headed than the current crop of leaders (among which rms, esr and the author of this strongly biased article).
- PenMount 11y agoOr just that the "free" software people stopped attacking the open Source people all the time.
- the_why_of_y 11y agoI'd recommend watching Bradley's LCA 2015 talk, especially the slide 11 where he's talking about the aggressive anti-copyleft stance of today's Apache Software Foundation (in contrast to the ASF of a decade ago, as discussed near the beginning of the talk). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItFjEG3LaA#t=19m50s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ItFjEG3LaA#t=19m50s