midwest.social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Limcon@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Corporate Open Source is Dead

m.youtube.com

external-link
message-square
43
link
fedilink
154
external-link

Corporate Open Source is Dead

m.youtube.com

Limcon@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
message-square
43
link
fedilink
Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus.Why are so many former open source darlings selling out or relicensing? And is there...
  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netBanned
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    No, open source has been historically exploited by corporations.

    • frezik
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      By design, yes.

Open Source@lemmy.ml

opensource@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !opensource@lemmy.ml

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

  • Open Source Initiative
  • Free Software Foundation
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Software Freedom Conservancy
  • It’s FOSS
  • Android FOSS Apps Megathread

Rules

  • Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

  • !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_software@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
  • !linux@lemmy.ml
  • !technology@lemmy.ml

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 157 users / day
  • 1.12K users / week
  • 3.45K users / month
  • 10.3K users / 6 months
  • 199 local subscribers
  • 36.6K subscribers
  • 3.17K Posts
  • 38K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Evan@lemmy.ml
  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.11
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org