• Bilb!
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    3 years ago

    If you find the writer’s “no capital letters” writing style obnoxious and difficult to read like I do, you can paste the text into this: https://www.textfixer.com/tools/capitalize-sentences.php

    Edit: And now that I’ve read it, I can’t say I understand exactly what the author’s point was. To say “free software” is “dead” and to say “free software has a specific goal and I don’t care about it” are two different things and seems needlessly dramatic. The rest of it is a long-winded description of the state of open-source licensed software and how corporations use it, often in an exploitative way. It may be a long acknowledgement that you are not going to solve the worlds problems with software alone, which is worth remembering.

  • Elbullazul
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    53 years ago

    corporations have little to nothing to lose by publishing existing source code

    That is SO wrong lmao, imagine if SAP or Microsoft open-sourced their ERP solutions, or if Intel released their microcode source, or any other bif corp releasing their 20+ year work.

    I agree that for big project, plain open-source got more popular than free software, but I wouldn’t say FOSS is dead. In the Linux community, it seems to be somewhat alive, pretty sure it is as well in other communities.