Re: Contributing Back
> I'm not alone in disagreeing with Stallman
I also disagree with some of the things he has said.
> his position is political rather than philosophical.
It’s both, remember he is an academic who has never had to earn a living from being a software developer, this combined with a hippie mindset has poisoned open source and our ability to charge anything for it, hence why we have all the open source funding problems we currently have.
> No strings attached is how I like my open source.
That’s BSD then :)
There was an ElReg article in the last year or so about “open source”, where we noted what is generally regarded as open source, is more akin to public source and development, where development is readily visible to all on say Github, at no cost (*).
(*) I am expecting at some point services such as Microsoft’s GitHub will start charging: want to use our platform, buy a developer’s subscription; want to view a project, buy a user subscription. Obviously these would be tiered on the number of projects you wished to be able to access. As this is Microsoft, don’t expect any of those revenues to actually go to the individual projects, but the subscription will allow the projects to be harvested by CoPilot.