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What Happened to the Vision in Open Source?

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday March 23 2014, @03:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the Bizarre-Cathedrals dept.

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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  • (Score: 2) by TheloniousToady on Monday March 24 2014, @08:06AM

    by TheloniousToady (820) on Monday March 24 2014, @08:06AM (#20166)

    Sorry, I meant "OSI" (opensource.org). You're right that my knowledge is a bit rusty on the subject. (I'm pretty current on the ad hominem fallacy [wikipedia.org] though. ;-).

    Thanks for the brief explanation of copyleft, though I've read through the GPL and the related commentary from the FSI (just kidding) enough times to fully understand the concept. I simply disagree that explicitly restricting how users can use software somehow promotes freedom.

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