[Video] Bruce Perens Explains How We Shall Combat Openwashing and Exploitation
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THIS recent talk by Bruce Perens is a very concise culmination of work he has done for years, trying to tackle GPL violations (he mentions Busybox a lot), openwashing, and exploitation by monopolists.
He gave the talk earlier this year. He said they enabled companies like "Google to be created", but in practice what we have right now serves to benefit the licensees rather than licensors. He tackled some "DEI" misconceptions and refuted common myths. Among the other topics covered: philosophy, GPL circumvention, and legal departments hoarding all the money (while giving nothing to actual coders, i.e. opinionated or hard-working hackers who actually create and maintain Free software).
About 6 minutes in Perens introduced his solution to this, an initiative (and licence) dubbed "Post-Open" [1, 2]. He said it "addresses some of the problems of Open Source". He said he's 66 and had cancer for 30 years (and still feels great). He said that for medical reasons "he won't be around to run this."
The underlying concepts and motivations behind "Post-Open" are worth paying attention to. Whether "Post-Open" is the way forward or not, the premise seems legitimate and it is based on decades of his experience. █