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I was listening to this guy in background
The Linux Experiment (foss news)
He mentioned a problem with licenses not being enough to guarantee open-source. I guess this is kind of expected, laws always have holes and never actually *prevent* things. I'm not sure that you can really fix human dishonesty with a license. Should still try though.
...and I just realized how true "everything a company has goes wrong" was. I actually can't think of a large project "owned" by a company that behaves anything like an open-source community.
VSCode maybe? I don't use it idk.
Is the company form so efficient that it's worth sacrificing the project's ideal to get a result? I actually don't know how much of a difference it makes.
Not that community-led projects can't f*ck things up. I'm a Gnome user, I'm *aware*. It just doesn't seem nearly as bad and prolonged.
The good part is that partial open source still works, every of these projects have more open-ethics-aligned forks.
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I've written "Guarantee" too much times and I don't know what it *truly* means.
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