opensource

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.

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

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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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.

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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