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Tuesday at OSCON, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has continued the celebration of 20 years of open source. A blog post at the OSI reflects on how Open Source fits in with pre-existing intitiatives.
Open source did not emerge from a void. It was consciously a marketing programme for the already-15-year-old idea of free software and arose in the context of both the GNU Project and the BSD community and their history (stretching back to the late 70s). We chose to reflect this in the agenda for our celebration track at OSCON.
But that doesn't mean its inception is irrelevant. The consensus to define open source at the VA Linux meeting and the subsequent formation of OSI and acceptance of the Open Source Definition changed the phrase from descriptive to a term of art accepted globally. It created a movement and a market and consequently spread software freedom far beyond anyone's expectations. That has to be worth celebrating.
Wikipedia's entry on Open Source provides a great deal of information on its origin and application in multiple fields besides just software.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:29PM
Maybe I should say: Microsoft's best days are behind it.
It doesn't have the monopoly any longer.
Microsoft cannot squeeze and demand in the ways it once did. It can't pressure its OEMs so much any more to make only Windows devices. And once Microsoft OEMs now make all kinds of devices even as they continue to make Windows devices.
Microsoft has thrown in the towel on smartphones. No surprise since Ballmer laughed at the iPhone. Unable to see the potential.
A surprisingly sized chunk of the population needs nothing more than a Chromebook. Microsoft's once deepest Netscape fear come true. The OS has become irrelevant. Most good things are cross platform, or run on the web, and probably run on phones, tablets, etc.
Intel's future is not quite so bright either due to their integrated approach of both designing and fabbing chips. The rest of the world has design houses who hire fabs to build their chips. AMD is giving Intel a run for its money as Intel has had a stumble. ARM chips still might become "a thing" in servers. Simpler architecture might be more secure in the wake of spectre like attacks.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.