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Title    Has FOSS Traded its Shared Values for Success in the Marketplace?
Date    Sunday March 31 2019, @12:51AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the be-sure-to-FLOSS-twice-a-day dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/03/30/1945237

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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  1. " practices the same ideals that existed in FOSS twenty years ago. Similarly, after years of inactivity, the " - https://sfconservancy.org/
  2. "Open Source Initiative (OSI)" - https://opensource.org/
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=32641

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