I'm really appreciating this idea on FOSS from my colleague Bo Waggoner—not just "free as in speech" or "free as in beer" but "free as in way." Increasingly, that is, FOSS acts like a freeway.
https://bowaggoner.com/blahg/2024/03-13-free-as-in-way/
It is infrastructure for business—free for all, but a means of profit for some. And that affects how we should build economies around it.
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