* Paul Frields: > That statement rings hollow for me, when Github is arguably the single > biggest vendor of open source in the world, no part of itself is open > source, and thanks to its pervasiveness, open source has won the war > of how development should work. For those who think this statement is bizarre: Gmail is also strongly associated with open-source development, but is not itself open source. Many people also seem to believe they do open-source development once their proprietary product targets GNU/Linux (as opposed to Windows or Android). Meanwhile, some of us struggle with being accepted as open source because we offer corresponding source code along with binaries, but neither is freely downloadable from the public Internet. To me, that suggests that the term “open source” has become largely meaningless. The concept is still important to me, but the term itself is about as ambiguous now as “free software” always was. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
