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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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And so we are seeing calls for licenses that shift power back to the authors - who are often still individuals or collectives rather than companies.
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The OSI can persist in its insistence that “open source” means transferring power to the user, but if they do, I think they’re missing the larger point of their movement.
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If we want free and open source software to continue to be about giving power to individuals at the expense of companies, then it’s time for a change.
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I want to read more about the legal aspects of open source licensing - both generally in terms of what kind of case law exists, and specifically around what constitutes "distribution."
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But IANAL, so I've googled, but I don't know how to evaluate the trustworthiness of the results. I assume that in law, as in software development, there are a lot of bad takes out there.
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This is also not the same argument now that "the user" is usually a large corporation.
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In fact, transferring power to these users is not a moral good.
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