Comment by raw_anon_1111
5 hours ago
And no one to a first approximation cares as consumers and companies aren’t worried about strategies about how to compete with open source - they have all co opted them to increase their profits.
The whole argument is why should people care about open source and what can one do to make them want open source alternatives that are worse in every way that they care about? Make better products that have the features and ease of use that people come to expect in 2025.
No other profession expects people to desire to work for free and most open source software has most of its major contributors as corporate backed. The AGPL is the least “free” license compared to something like the BSD license they gives people the ability to do anything they want with the code.
I see people on HN constantly trying to excuse the shittiness of products like phones running FDroid and Framework laptops compared to the better alternatives
> Make better products that have the features and ease of use that people come to expect in 2025.
https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/docs/community-wiki/-/wikis/F...
> The AGPL is the least “free” license compared to something like the BSD license they gives people the ability to do anything they want with the code.
AGPL is the license forcing the code to be open forever. It's the most free license, unlike BSD, which allows closing it and turning into proprietary software.
Free as in “user freedom” to do whatever the user wants. What type of Orwellian doublespeak is calling the AGPL that forces an ideology on the user “freedom”?
BSD provides more freedom to developers. (A)GPL provides a guarantee to users that the code will stay free forever.
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