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Open-source ideal undermined by industry capture, author argues

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The author expresses frustration with the current state of open-source software, arguing that despite its growth, it has led to more locked-down, industry-captured ecosystems. They believe that the reliance on copyright as a mechanism for open source, while perhaps effective in the past, has not achieved the ideal of user agency over computation devices. The author criticizes the current trend of open-source projects being designed for easier corporate adoption, which they see as antithetical to the original spirit of free software. AI

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Open-source ideal undermined by industry capture, author argues

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    Opensource / free software for me is a manifestation of my wider ideal: that everybody owning a computation device should be able to use it to compute in a way

    Opensource / free software for me is a manifestation of my wider ideal: that everybody owning a computation device should be able to use it to compute in a way that they have agency over and hopefully enriches their lives. It is not for me about who created what and getting recog…

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