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posted by martyb on Sunday March 31 2019, @12:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the be-sure-to-FLOSS-twice-a-day dept.

https://fossforce.com/2019/03/foss-on-the-road-to-nowhere/

The FSF and Linux Foundation are not the only organizations that could assume the moral leadership of FOSS. practices the same ideals that existed in FOSS twenty years ago. Similarly, after years of inactivity, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been struggling recently to again be relevant. However, both have a long way to ago before they can speak for the majority of FOSS, assuming they would care to.

Maybe the loss of a single direction is a sign of the success of FOSS. Maybe shared ideals can only exist at a certain point in a movement's development, and to wish otherwise is only meaningless nostalgia. Yet, despite the success of FOSS, today it has only partly transformed technology and business, and much remains to do. Unless we decide to content ourselves with what has already been done, I think that a sense of meaning — of making a difference — is more useful than seeing FOSS as nothing more than a shorter time to market.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @01:08AM (9 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @01:08AM (#822558)

    ...or any of it's members for christs sake!

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  • (Score: 2) by corey on Sunday March 31 2019, @01:21AM (8 children)

    by corey (2202) on Sunday March 31 2019, @01:21AM (#822561)

    Citation needed. How have they been immoral?

    • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @01:42AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @01:42AM (#822564)

      Using the Lord's name in vain in comments, etc.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:15AM (1 child)

        by driverless (4770) on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:15AM (#822631)

        Is Linus mentioned in comments?

        • (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:03PM

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:03PM (#822728) Journal

          If so, I hope nobody is using his name in vane or in vein.

          The 3rd tempation of Linus . . .

          Ballmer then showed Linus all of the CPUs of the world and their splendor.
          "These I will give you", he said, "If you will bow down and click I AGREE to my EULA."

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          People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by DannyB on Sunday March 31 2019, @02:59AM (2 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @02:59AM (#822590) Journal

      When Microsoft acquired The Linux Foundation in 2016, it ceased to be moral.

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
      • (Score: 2) by corey on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:25PM

        by corey (2202) on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:25PM (#822847)

        Thanks, I'd totally forgotten about this.

        I wouldn't call it immoral, more that their vales may have changed away from the FOSS.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 31 2019, @10:56PM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday March 31 2019, @10:56PM (#822873) Homepage Journal

        They saw it was for sale, they bought it, why does that make them immoral? Was it stolen and did they know? I mean, we try not to buy too many stolen things. But, a lot of times we don't know. And we think, "oh that's a tremendous bargain," we buy it. And it's a tremendous bargain for us -- unless the police come looking for it. I don't see the police coming for Microsoft. And that's not because they never heard of Microsoft, it's one of our most popular, most famous companies. So I give them a mulligan!!!!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @10:30AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @10:30AM (#822688)

      The Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6) trade group. As such, its membership consists of corporations. Corporations are a legal and regulatory construction, and so have no capability to have morals.

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by DannyB on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:05PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:05PM (#822729) Journal

        But you forget . . . corporations are people too! And thus they have morals! And like any valuable resource, morals are a marketable commodity.

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