it’s time to reassert the value of software developed in an open collaboration. Everything else is proprietary. Everything else is a relicensing time bomb.
This is the point. In the real world, money matters. Comments from an org like OSI on companies not being principled are akin to the church making comments on abortion. To these orgs it’s a black and white issue: either you adhere to their beliefs and are “good” or you don’t and you are “evil”.
Articles like these sound like out of touch preachers screaming about queers and family values. And people who blindly follow them with no arguments but “it was written by X” or “it’s written in Y” are just appealing to authority.
That’s an unnecessarily strong reaction. Money clearly matters for some things. But that’s not all that matters. There are many people releasing FOSS without any financial expectations. Clearly, money doesn’t matter to those people on that context. Trying to argue that “money should matter also for those people on that context” doesn’t make too much sense to me. Nobody is forcing anybody to release FOSS.
This is the point. In the real world, money matters. Comments from an org like OSI on companies not being principled are akin to the church making comments on abortion. To these orgs it’s a black and white issue: either you adhere to their beliefs and are “good” or you don’t and you are “evil”.
Articles like these sound like out of touch preachers screaming about queers and family values. And people who blindly follow them with no arguments but “it was written by X” or “it’s written in Y” are just appealing to authority.
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That’s an unnecessarily strong reaction. Money clearly matters for some things. But that’s not all that matters. There are many people releasing FOSS without any financial expectations. Clearly, money doesn’t matter to those people on that context. Trying to argue that “money should matter also for those people on that context” doesn’t make too much sense to me. Nobody is forcing anybody to release FOSS.
Yeah, you’re missing the point and I don’t know how to bring it across. It’s best we end this here as it’s going nowhere.
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