alt Hacker News"open source" as a verb is doing too much work here. are you proposing to release the human readable code or the object/machine code?
if it's the latter, it's not the source. it's free as in beer. not freedom.
"open source" as a verb is doing too much work here. are you proposing to release the human readable code or the object/machine code?
if it's the latter, it's not the source. it's free as in beer. not freedom.
Yes, I 100% agree. Open Source is a lot more about not paying than about liberty.
This is exactly the tradeoff that we had made in the industry a couple of decades ago. We could have pushed all-in on Stallman's vision and the FSF's definition of Free Software, but we (collectively) decided that it's more important to get the practical benefits of having all these repos up there on GitHub and us not suing each other over copyright infringement. It's absolutely legitimate to say that we made the wrong choice, and I might agree, but a choice was made, and Open Source != Free Software.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....