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: 5, Informative) by Bot on Sunday March 31 2019, @11:25AM
> some people still seem to think the Cathedral was proprietary, it wasn't, it was Free, specifically FSF/GNU
oh.
Anyway I started having problems with the cathedral and the bazaar.
The cathedral gave us systemd and the bazaar gave us npm.
I would say, to stay in the metaphor, that the cathedral may be built by a malevolent masonic lodge, and that the bazaar may be full of pickpockets.
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