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LCA: Addressing the failure of open sourceLCA: Addressing the failure of open sourcePosted Jan 18, 2012 1:05 UTC (Wed) by gfa (subscriber, #53331)In reply to: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source by corbet Parent article: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source
our community is getting less and less interested on the freedom (and political) side of free software.
i think Bruce is pointing that out.
i don't think open hardware as a future "so bright" as free software had (have?) i hope I'm wrong
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LCA: Addressing the failure of open source Posted Jan 27, 2012 16:23 UTC (Fri) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]
> our community is getting less and less interested on the freedom
And, IMO, "less and less" seems to be an understatement. We are rapidly approaching "just disinterested". "open" is fine, we don't need "Open". I wonder if a lot of the push for "Open" wasn't just because that was cool and the time and now "Cloud" [a synonym, in practice, for "proprietary"] is now the cool thing. For a lot of people I believe it was just about the cool thing.
> i don't think open hardware as a future
Agree, Open Hardware is a nowhere going nowhere. Building physical things cannot be equated to developing software; it will always be a self-interested corporation building and distributing hardware.
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