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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: 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?

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  • (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.