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".
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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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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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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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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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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