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An anonymous coward writes:
"An interesting article about the shift in open source from idealistic to pragmatic. The author compares the relative obscurity of FOSS software such as MediaGoblin and KDE's MakePlayLive co-op to commercial software. The article then goes on to discuss the split between FOSS's goal to provide freedom to users and to provide high-quality software. Also mentioned is the split between commercial and non-commercial FOSS."
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What Happened to the Vision in Open Source?
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(Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Sunday March 23 2014, @07:39PM
> Nope, look again.
Links? Mine are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki [wikipedia.org] and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomis [wikipedia.org]
> so FireFox has been copying Mosaic this whole time
The concept, sure. Copying is transitive. Sure it had also to compete for features and web interoperability with commercial browsers. Which still proves you wrong when commercial browsers had to do exactly the same, see Adblock and crippled noscript imitations...)
> Then you do not understand the theory.
"FOSS falls on its face when it doesn't have something to carbon copy off of".
False, as proven. If your theory was different, you should have chosen different words. If you refer to GNU explicitly wanting to replace proprietary unix tools with free ones, then you are criticizing GNU and not FOSS, and you are essentially saying that accomplishing their mission was a failure because they did it in the right way.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Tork on Sunday March 23 2014, @08:48PM
You're right, I made a boo boo here. When I read the Bomis page earlier I got the part where they said it was a predecessor to Nupedia and Wikipedia, I didn't go far enough down to read the WikiWikiWeb bit. That's my bad and will concede that point.
Oh, please. "They had to keep copying to keep up, but not really because commercial browsers copy to keep up."
Nope. One of your colleagues in this thread, however, has made a little head-way on that. Not enough, but some. He understood what I said just fine.
Slashdolt logic: 1600 x 1200 > 1920 x 1200
(Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:18PM
Make it "They had to keep copying to keep up, but commercial browsers copy to keep up themselves" so we have an instance of innovative FOSS that succeeds so that others need to copy its features.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Sunday March 23 2014, @09:45PM
Slashdolt logic: 1600 x 1200 > 1920 x 1200
(Score: 2) by marcello_dl on Monday March 24 2014, @07:41AM
You tell me. Go ahead and explain why commercial software is innovative, apart the need to do things differently for the sake of differentiating from the competition, whether the user likes it or not.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Monday March 24 2014, @12:03PM
Slashdolt logic: 1600 x 1200 > 1920 x 1200
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @12:33PM
The answer was, FF is a web browser, browsing protocols are added/tweaked all the time. Let's see slackware and systemd, for a fitting example.
(Score: 1) by Tork on Monday March 24 2014, @01:09PM
Slashdolt logic: 1600 x 1200 > 1920 x 1200