10-Year Anniversary of Open Source 161
Bruce Perens writes "Saturday is the 10-Year Anniversary of Open Source, the initiative to promote Free Software to business. Obviously, it's been incredibly successful. I've submitted a State of Open Source message discussing the anniversary of Open Source, its successes, and the challenges it will face in the upcoming decade."
Misleading use of capital letters (Score:5, Insightful)
While this may be the 10th anniversary of Open Source, it is not the 10th anniversary of open s.
Open-source computer code has been around about as long as computers, and the equivalent to open source in other areas such as blueprints have been around since time immemorial.
corrected (Score:3, Insightful)
While this may be the 10th anniversary of Open Source, it is not the 10th anniversary of open source.
Open-source computer code has been around about as long as computers, and the equivalent to open source in other areas such as blueprints have been around since time immemorial.
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Re:10 years - not hardly (Score:1, Insightful)
Maybe if you understood what he wrote or even anything he has said over the past 10 years you would not have made such a silly statement.
Open Source MOVEMENT. read the whole thing before foaming at the mouth.
Re:Correction: free software is the success (Score:5, Insightful)
That said, I remember just how little buy-in we had with business people then, because Richard was the wrong guy to promote to them. He doesn't have any empathy with them, this rapidly becomes clear if you discuss it with him. Yes, if we didn't do it, someone else would have. The world really was ready for it, that was clear in how fast it caught on.
Thanks
Bruce
I'm so sick of "Open Source" it's bogus! (Score:5, Insightful)
I've been in the industry for about 25 years and RMS was a visionary. While we we focused on software and what it could do and how to do it, he also focused on the dangers that our own creativity would bring to us and how to protect us from it.
Make no mistake, RIAA, MPIAA, SCO, et. al. are *ALL* apparitions RMS saw over a decade or so ago. The Open Source movement is nothing more than a selfish group of little people with a narrow scope and no plan. RMS has had a plan all along, and while he may seem to be an extremist and might not have been right 100% of the time, in retrospect, he has been right pretty darn close and his extremism seems less and less unwarranted over time.
The truth is both a blessing and a curse. It takes a lot of work to realize the truth and most people will not challenge themselves. Once you learn the truth, however, you are cursed with trying to explain it to others.
Re:Not 10 years: thank ESR for the lies (Score:3, Insightful)
Of course, the words "Open Source" could have been used that way before then, but we can't find any record
Not to rain on your parade, Bruce, but the comment that you're replying to shows documentation of the term being used in 1990. I know that this isn't news to you, but this "I own the term Open Source" game that you play really turns a lot of people (who would otherwise be very sympathetic) away from your message.
Re:I think you mean "Open Source" - actually Free. (Score:1, Insightful)
Scarcity (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I'm so sick of "Open Source" it's bogus! (Score:5, Insightful)
In my experience, Open Source people are mostly Free Software advocates who have modified their terminology in order to make their sales pitch more effective.
Their are typically very community-minded, and un-selfish (by the standards of most people).
They are more interested in driving adoption than RMS, who prefers to focus on promoting an understanding of the principles of Software Freedom.
Generally speaking, Open Source folks have the same goal as the Free Software community, but differ in their preferred means.
Re:Big deal (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Misleading use of capital letters (Score:2, Insightful)
All of this predates RMS, ESR, GNU and everything else. Availability of source code as a principal "right" became important only after the hardware itself was inevitably turned into a commodity and ceased being a shared resource.
Re:What? (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, BSD had the source code and licensing, but no campaign to drive others to create such things. Stallman started that. I canonized the definition of what was, and what was not, Open Source. Raymond and I evangelized to business. Everybody in this picture is standing on other folks shoulders. I'd be the last to deny that.
Bruce
Re:I'm so sick of "Open Source" it's bogus! (Score:3, Insightful)
This is not so much about compromising ideals as it is about style of evangelism.
Thanks
Bruce
Re:Misleading use of capital letters (Score:2, Insightful)
Thanks, Apple.