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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 31 2019, @10:30AM (1 child)
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
But you forget . . . corporations are people too! And thus they have morals! And like any valuable resource, morals are a marketable commodity.
Fact: We get heavier as we age due to more information in our heads. When no more will fit it accumulates as fat.