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LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

Posted Jan 27, 2012 16:23 UTC (Fri) by whitemice (guest, #3748)
In reply to: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source by gfa
Parent article: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source

> 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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