Mike McQuaid on Nostr: With the increasing amount of conversation about expanding the definition of “open ...
With the increasing amount of conversation about expanding the definition of “open source” to violate the OSI terms: I've decided that all software is now open source.
This fixes open source sustainability: you can now just charge for your (proprietary) software.
You're welcome.
(Anyone who disagrees is just being unnecessarily pedantic/doesn't care about open source maintainers/loves big companies/smells of poo/etc.)
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2024-02-19 14:22:10Event JSON
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