One huge impact mass FOSS adoption would have is that there would be a lot less software and hardware churn. Commercial nature of proprietary technology is the main driver for constant upgrade cycles we see. Companies need to constantly sell products to stay in business, and this means you have to deprecate old software and hardware in order to sell new versions of the product.
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in reply to Remus • • •@ikonoklast thing is that people don't do open source work with the profit as their primary motive, nor should it be. This whole thread is literally about explaining the perverse incentives that profit motive causes.
Frankly, your whole argument makes little sense to me given that we have plenty of large scale successful open source projects already. Things can be improved of course, but clearly the model already works.
Remus
in reply to Yogthos • • •i'm not arguing against open source, i'm arguing against this quote of yours
"This problem goes away entirely with open source because there is no commercial incentive at play"
While most of the work on open source software is actually done and paid for by companies with commercial incentive, just a different business model. Unfortunately we still live in capitalism after all: if there's no commercial incentive, then it usually doesn't happen
Yogthos
in reply to Remus • • •@ikonoklast the problem I'm referring to is the one of perverse incentives that commercial software development creates.
I'd like to see citations that most of the work on open source is funded by commercial companies. Last I looked, companies are actually quite terrible at contributing money back to open source they use. It's literally a meme at this point.
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in reply to Yogthos • • •No GPL version says "open" it it.
The GPLv3 says rather; "The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works."
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The freedom definitions don't say "open".
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