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.
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Sunday March 31 2019, @04:15AM (1 child)
Is Linus mentioned in comments?
(Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Sunday March 31 2019, @03:03PM
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."
Fact: We get heavier as we age due to more information in our heads. When no more will fit it accumulates as fat.