Open source folks fail to see that open source software and free software are totally different things. They only want the source code, they don't care about the philosophical, political or ethical part.
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Exactly. The movement originated as a neoliberal reaction to free software.
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I don't know if it was a neoliberal reaction, they only wanted the technical benefits of open source code and to market it to businesses. And they did it pretty succesful, almost nobody knows what free software is nowadays but everybody knows open source software.
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The idea of that question was probably rooted in the idea of “Yeah we like Open Source, but we don’t like Free Software. We can’t use the stupid GPL”. In translation: “we like you working for us for free, but we’re definitely not interested to share our code with you”.
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My view had been that “open source” is a technical philosophy and “free software” a political/moral one. Why you see less embrace of the latter by mega corporations, imo
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