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Open source gets pragmatic
October 15, 2008 (6:30:00 PM) - 1 month ago
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Most of the time, changes in the technology landscape happen gradually. Sometimes we can look back and pick out some inflection point--though, in my experience, such are more about storytelling convenience than anything more concrete. However, at least as often, things just evolve until one day we've clearly arrived in a different place.
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Open source gets pragmatic
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 147.206.4.254] on October 15, 2008 08:55 PMIf you believe, as I do, that restrictions inherent in proprietary software are inherently unfair, then it doesn't matter if Free Software (or Open Source) is a "business model" - it simply is a fundamental right along the lines of freedom of speech, and businesses that interfere with it need to change their behavior or be put out of business.
Free Software is completely in line with the values our society has traditionally held dear. It is the proprietary software world that has been the radical departure - our own computers don't answer to us and "phone home" to find out if they should obey their owners (e.g. drm servers)! Is it really such a "radical" idea that as a computer owner you should have the ownership rights traditionally granted to owners of other progery?
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