We were once quick to distinguish open source as “free as in freedom, not free as in beer.” Two decades on, developers demand the "beer" but are somewhat nonchalant about the freedom, as GitHub data suggests https://www.infoworld.com/article/3279105/open-source-tools/open-source-s-existential-dilemma-the-value-of-free.html … by @mjasay for @infoworld
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"Free as in freedom" was a GNU/GPL slogan. The Open Source movement never adopted the "freedom means you can't derive proprietary work", and that ethos wasn't present when I started working on OSS in 2005.
1:56 PM - 6 Jun 2018
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