Opensource

If you feel that “open source”, as per the OSD, has to change, I’d ask why does it need to change instead of you using an alternative term

Simple: OSI doesn't own the word "open source", nor should they. Their definition is as blue eyed and naive as Marxism. It doesn't evolve nor live in the real world, but a one of fantasy where no method of exploitation nor circumvention has been invented. It's basically a world where lying hasn't been invented.

In our real world with real consequences and real people, companies take advantage of opensource. The vast majority of open source maintainers and authors can't live on open source. Yet somehow the privileged few that can, would like to make everyone believe that principles pay off, and that living by some definition made by the privileged is the only " right way" to make a living writing opensource.

I find it to be nearly in the same vein as rich people who say "if you work hard enough, you can be rich like me" and throw around platitudes like "pull yourself up from your bootstraps". Or being like those in an ivory tower judging those trying to find a way to make a living: " no, not like that! only my way is just".

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