Producing open source software isn't a bad thing, even if you don't get
it immediately. OSI's position toward proprietary software has always
been that the proprietary nature has a cost in terms of outside
contributions to your software. I mean, I never knew that the Pep Boys
were using my Token Ring packet driver until I received a floppy disk in
the mail. Their improvements were valuable, coming from an actual user
of the software.
We don't criticize people for producing proprietary software. We think
that the proprietary nature is its own punishment.
On 10/27/23 14:06, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
IMO, taking a “neutral” position on a practice that is clearly bad for
consumers isn't really neutrality; it's merely tacit support of the incumbent
authority.
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