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shazow
@shazow.eth
Can we take a moment and appreciate how lucky we are as a society that we have OSI's definition of OSS? It's the closest thing we have to neutral technology: no discrimination against users or builders or politics or nationality. No getting rugged by context or regime changes. We're so lucky to have OSS at our core.
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Boris Mann
@boris
The OSI’s stance has lead us to corporate capture. Non-commercial licenses that require large revenue positive companies pay are a useful evolution Big Time Public License being one example https://bigtimelicense.com/versions/2.0.2
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shazow
@shazow.eth
Millions of people create OSS, almost all of them are employed by commercial entities. In a world where exclusionary source licenses were dominant, almost all code would remain private. There are many reasons why corporate capture happens, OSS is not a cause but rather one of the few counterbalances we have.
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