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Open Source Does Not Win by Being Cheaper
To early free and open source developers, the move toward standard tools and workflows, shepherded by a single company like GitHub (acquired by Microsoft in 2018), represented a backslide against everything they had been fighting for since the 1980s. Code collaboration wasn’t supposed to belong to anyone, and especially not to a multibillion-dollar
... See moreNadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Looking at the landscape of open source software today, I note two things. First, successful open source platforms tend to be partnered with caretaker organizations. Wikipedia has the Wikimedia Foundation, Linux has the constellation of organizations around the Linux Foundation, and Kubernetes has the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Second, open... See more
Jason Barrett Prado • DAOs are interesting, likely, and terrifying
In the end, the fragile balance of open source—that unlikely blend of personalities and incentives that has driven tech’s innovation engine throughout the 21st century—won’t be upset by the odd state actor, or by malicious spam, or whatever scary new thing The Register is up in arms about tomorrow. It can only be disrupted when the community comes ... See more
Forrest Brazeal • The threat to open source comes from within
The difference between Web2 and Web3 businesses, is that Web3 businesses are open-sourced. Simply imagine Uber operating openly – anyone who wants to, is able to see all the transactions in its network. There’s no proprietary secret hidden to defend itself from competitors (or even hackers). It’s all up to the community & its
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Linux would never have become a global success story if subjected to license terms or limitations or if its innovations had been patent-protected.