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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:56AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:56AM (#822684)

    some people still seem to think the Cathedral was proprietary, it wasn't, it was Free, specifically FSF/GNU.

    The Cathedral and the Bazaar was also about how things were developed. Cathedral software was build by a select group until it was complete and released, Bazaar was more about continous development (adding feature, release, bugfixes and more features, release, etc).

  • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:15PM

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Sunday March 31 2019, @09:15PM (#822845)

    Cathedral software was build by a select group until it was complete and released, Bazaar was more about continous development

    No software is ever complete. Quite a lot of it appears to escape, rather than be released.

    The BSDs are cathedral in that there is quality control and release engineering, centrally controlled, for the entire product.

    Linux distros are often just bizarre (have systemd - won't travel).

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