So...does nobody on the "free as in freedom" side of things understand why they lost? http://www.sicpers.info/2017/07/open-source-because-i-got-mine-so-fuck-you/ …
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It's been 15 years. You'd think they'd have figured it out by now, & stopped writing the same "why do you hate freedom????" posts.
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Has anyone written a book, or at least like a New Yorker article, about how this all happened? It's dramatic & interesting stuff.
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Free as in freedom was the only game in town for decades, and then in the span of a few years it became just a footnote.
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Mostly because they place way too much emphasis on access to code. The code isn't the valuable part of a piece of software.
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A considerable contributing factor was (and continues to be) their repugnant spokesperson.
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But mostly they're just mistaken in their belief that "freedom" comes from access to source code.
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A long time ago I wrote my thoughts on this: http://yehudakatz.com/2010/01/05/the-maximal-usage-doctrine-for-open-source/ … Communities of users and quality are the high order bit.
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Honestly, the fact that they manage to contort "freedom to use" into something that feels the opposite ot most users is an accomplishment.
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