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Open-Source: Why Every Business Model Failed

5 pointsby PoutCoover 1 year ago

4 comments

galenmarchettiover 1 year ago
feels like the conflation of &quot;free open-source software&quot; in the Stallman sense with &quot;nonfree open-source software&quot; muddies up all of these discussions&#x2F;judgements on how software should run<p>nonfree open-source software offers the right to repair, a promise that the code you use will be free forever, and the right to inspect (security&#x2F;functionality). for some developers those rights + promises are enough.<p>the author places common business models at odds with &quot;OS philosopy&quot;...not sure that&#x27;s true. at odds with Stallman&#x27;s definition of free software which has some pretty aggressive moral tilt ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;is-ever-good-use-nonfree-program.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gnu.org&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;is-ever-good-use-nonfree-prog...</a> ) ...but outside of that, I think most of these business models are actually Just Fine.
PoutCoover 1 year ago
“I’d love to go open-source, but it just doesn’t pay the bills”
teddarificover 1 year ago
Fascinating topic, awesome seeing how people are thinking about it!<p>I found the article a little hand-wavey though, would love to hear more about the short comings of dual-licenses
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jqpabc123over 1 year ago
Open Source is a system of perfect logic built on the foundation of a few flawed assumptions.