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: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday March 31 2019, @10:56PM
They saw it was for sale, they bought it, why does that make them immoral? Was it stolen and did they know? I mean, we try not to buy too many stolen things. But, a lot of times we don't know. And we think, "oh that's a tremendous bargain," we buy it. And it's a tremendous bargain for us -- unless the police come looking for it. I don't see the police coming for Microsoft. And that's not because they never heard of Microsoft, it's one of our most popular, most famous companies. So I give them a mulligan!!!!