FOSS is flawed, but I don’t think that the solution is limiting corporate use. Imagine a world where Linux kernel wasn’t released under open source license. We would have Microsoft owning entire server infrastructure market right now.
I agree with you as I’m an old FOSS beard - we wouldn’t have gotten here without GPL/MIT/BSD etc.
But things aren’t working for a huge number of projects. And is it right that so many critical dependencies are maintained by so few with so little resources, if any? Just look at the xz fiasco we narrowly avoided catastrophe over.
The Linux Foundation is a good model for core infrastructure and projects that underpin the ecosystem like the kernel - LF are turning over $300M or something a year.
But for smaller projects that aren’t critical or aren’t looking to be a core dependency like xz, dual licensing seems the only obvious way forward.
As I mentioned under another comment, public money - public code should be the solution we move forward to. It negates all the bad incentives created under capitalism and strengthens the public good aspect of open source.
FOSS is flawed, but I don’t think that the solution is limiting corporate use. Imagine a world where Linux kernel wasn’t released under open source license. We would have Microsoft owning entire server infrastructure market right now.
I agree with you as I’m an old FOSS beard - we wouldn’t have gotten here without GPL/MIT/BSD etc.
But things aren’t working for a huge number of projects. And is it right that so many critical dependencies are maintained by so few with so little resources, if any? Just look at the xz fiasco we narrowly avoided catastrophe over.
The Linux Foundation is a good model for core infrastructure and projects that underpin the ecosystem like the kernel - LF are turning over $300M or something a year.
But for smaller projects that aren’t critical or aren’t looking to be a core dependency like xz, dual licensing seems the only obvious way forward.
As I mentioned under another comment, public money - public code should be the solution we move forward to. It negates all the bad incentives created under capitalism and strengthens the public good aspect of open source.