top | item 45771573 (no title) zitsarethecure | 4 months ago IMO FOSS "lost the plot" when we accepted the false argument that source code sharing was purely an engineering issue rather than an ethics issue. discuss order hn newest bigyabai|4 months ago FWIW, it's not hard to argue that copyrighted code lost the plot at the exact same spot. It's not only FOSS' fault. jay_kyburz|4 months ago Can you explain what you mean? As far as I'm aware, ethics has always been the central issue? zitsarethecure|4 months ago ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).
bigyabai|4 months ago FWIW, it's not hard to argue that copyrighted code lost the plot at the exact same spot. It's not only FOSS' fault.
jay_kyburz|4 months ago Can you explain what you mean? As far as I'm aware, ethics has always been the central issue? zitsarethecure|4 months ago ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).
zitsarethecure|4 months ago ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).
bigyabai|4 months ago
jay_kyburz|4 months ago
zitsarethecure|4 months ago
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/
Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).