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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 24 2014, @04:13AM
(by the find tab I previously meant the ctrl+f feature where a tab comes up vs a popup window coming up. That wast stolen from firefox). Another stolen feature is the search engine box on the top right. Another stolen feature is tabs. All this came out in Firefox first and was later stolen by Internet explorer. Not to mention many of the command features in the DOS command prompt were designed to look a lot more like Linux in later versions of Windows.
It's perfectly fine for IP extremists to freeload and steal off the FOS community with no attribution whatsoever but don't anyone dare copy an idea from an IP extremist or else they will nail you to a cross and claim that they are the victims always being stolen from. I'm sick of the hypocrisy. If you don't want anyone copying your ideas at the very least be original and ensure that what you build isn't copied from anyone else.