Been thinking a lot about what comes after “free software” & “open source.” Both terms were coined when the tech industry (& the world) was a very different place. I think we’ve outgrown them.
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But that balance of power has shifted over the last 30 years. What we are noticing is that free and open source software is now accumulating power once again in the _companies_, since they’re the end the users of the software, rather than individuals.
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I was just having this conversation... And it's clear that the "four freedoms", at least in my eyes, are no longer what we need for the current landscapehttps://twitter.com/PaulDJohnston/status/1175052640948051968 …
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The "open source" community sees the "freedoms" as the purpose, rather than what they were originally intended for. Maybe what we need now, is a new form of license that takes some of the ideas, but embeds the ideas of justice. I've had a few people say the like the idea.
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