08.29.20
Gemini version available ♊︎Bruce Perens: What Comes After Open Source
Summary: A new talk (days ago) from co-founder of OSI, who quit OSI in protest earlier this year
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✐ Cross-references
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- Proprietary Software Giants Telling Us That “Open Source Has Won” Means That “Open Source” is Just Proprietary Software Giants
- Key Parts of the Latest Talk From Bruce Perens, Who Seemingly Wants to Go Back to Freedom (Because ‘Open’ Became Increasingly Meaningless and Users Are Harmed)
- Linux Would Never Have Been Mainstream Without GNU (We Could be Living in a BSD/UNIX World or Just More of Microsoft)
- Timeline of Free/Livre/Libre Software
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