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    1. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      The Silicon Valley move to crush the free software movement couldn't be openly hostile. They new that if their message was "software freedom is bad" they would lose. Instead, they picked a different message: "open source".

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    2. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      The initial branding message of "open source" was this: Software freedom is just a lifestyle choice that some people make. What matters is that anyone can donate patches to the maintainers of programs - lowering costs and raising quality. We call this "open source".

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    3. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      The play is fairly well documented in book backed by one of the conspirators, Tim O'Reilly ("Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software" by Sam Williams).

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    4. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      As they themselves tell the tail: Although Linus already had a reputation as a hot-head maintainer, Eric Raymond was among the first to recognize Linus' charm (I'd say glad-handing sycophancy) towards power -- and Raymond recognized a possible figure to use against Stallman.

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    5. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      Raymond coordinated a small meeting that included Larry Augustin (founder of an early GNU/Linux retailer) and Tim O'Reilly. Netscape was about to release source code for its browser (which would eventually become Mozilla / firefox). ...

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    6. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      ... and Raymond saw this as a chance to brand-build against the GNU project, against RMS, and against software freedom.

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    7. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      It was at this meeting that Christine Peterson - a director of a nanotech thinktank of the sort that is adjunct to large private capitalists and the national security apparatus - offered the term "open source".

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    8. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      Shortly after, Tim O'Reilly convened a private "freeware summit" inviting Augustin, founders of Cygnus, Raymond, and others -- while pointedly not inviting Richard Stallman. Out of that meeting, the PR campaign for the brand "open source" was born.

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    9. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      At that time, Linus had been brought out to the great Silicon Valley brain drain. He was given a well compensated job at a somewhat obscure fabless chip company, and a lot of his time was dedicated to just being the public Linux kernel maintainer.

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    10. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      In the forums for programmers, Linus cultivated his take-no-prisoners, "benevolent [though often mean] dictator" reputation. In the business press, he was the charming nordic curiosity - a tidy and reassuring lifestyle exhibit.

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      Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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      The Open Source Development Labs (today, The Linux Foundation) was, in large part, formed around Linus and it was with that level of institutional support that the kernel project grew to the scale and socially dysfunctional apparatus it is today.

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        2. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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          I guess that in some ways the "open source" attack on the free software movement has now eaten its own tail: They succeeded in slowing the GNU project down by quite a lot, only to themselves be over-run by smart-phones and Linux kernel forks.

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        3. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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          The principle mechanisms of monopolization in this brave new world are no longer brain-drains and branding battles -- but we're back to proprietary hardware wars, combined with oligopolies over cell phone networks.

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        4. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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          And so what's left of something like the kernel project besides a precarious relation to a handful of GNU/Linux distributions. Good takl, Daniel Vetter. "Burning Down the Castle".https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=BB0luXmuo3g …

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        5. Thomas Lord‏ @thomas_lord 25 Jan 2018
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          In conclusion: freedom matters. Free software is a liberation movement. Linus has long been a sychophatnic jerk. Dysfunction in the kernel project is no surprise at all. "Open Source" is a deliberate plot, by specific people, acting against your freedom. </>

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