Comment by JoshTriplett
1 day ago
> I couldn't care less that the term is "diluted" and that makes it harder
It also makes life harder for individuals and small companies, because this is not Open Source. It's incompatible with Open Source, it can't be reused in other Open Source projects.
Terms have meanings. This is not Open Source, and it will never be Open Source.
> It also makes life harder for individuals and small companies, because this is not Open Source. It's incompatible with Open Source, it can't be reused in other Open Source projects.
I'm amazed at the social engineering that the megacorps have done with the whole Open Source (TM) thing. They engineered a whole generation of engineers to advocate not in their own self-interest, nor for the interest of the little people, but instead for the interest of the megacorps.
As soon as there is even the tiniest of restrictions, one which doesn't affect anyone besides a bunch of richiest corporations in the world, a bunch of people immediately come out of the woodwork, shout "but it's not open source!" and start bullying everyone else to change their language. Because if you even so much as inconvenience a megacorporation even a little bit it's not Open Source (TM) anymore.
If we're talking about ideals then this is something I find unsettling and dystopian.
I hard disagree with your "It also makes life harder for individuals and small companies" statement. It's the opposite. It gives them a competitive advantage vs megacorps, however small it may be.
Nobody cares if they use a license that inconveniences megacorporations. The issue is how they try to present the license.
> start bullying everyone else to change their language
Either words matter or they do not. If words matter, then trying to dilute the term is a bad thing because it tries to weaken something that matters. If words do not matter, then the people who "bully everyone" can be easily ignored. You cannot have these two things at the same time.