Open Source Content
Open Source vs. Proprietary Software
Richard Stallman: Free Software
What is Open Source?
Open Source vs. Proprietary Software
Richard Stallman: Free Software
What is Open Source?
- How much does the market for software development change from proprietary to open source?
- Why has open source become such a beacon for some people?
- Do people fear that open source will provide us with too much freedom?
re: #3 -- Certainly the people who stand to lose their proprietary lock on the user are extremely fearful of that freedom -- they make arguments that FLOSS is dangerous, unstable, insecure, etc -- to protect their domination. And, to many in the population, freedom is more than a bit scary because it often involves making difficult choices, where they just want to kick back and consume without having to think about what it means. That's where OS is a much deeper philosophical question of how life is lived: risk versus safety (which is in juxtaposition to creative freedom versus control.
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