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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 7 months ago

The open secret of open washing – why companies pretend to be open source

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Nemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 7 months ago
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Allowing pretenders to co-opt the term is bad for everyone
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    7 months ago

    Hell, there’s even absolute dickholes which post their own definition of “open-source” like they’re the fucking OSI themselves: https://futo.org/open-source-definition/

    They seem to be a bit incoherent… some AGPL, some MIT, then some inh-house licensing… weird.

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