Open Source Power

peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-11-16

Summary:

"I'm tired to the bone of debating the minutae of open source definitions when the conversation we ought to be having is about power: who has it? (oligarchs), how did they get it? (monopolies & corruption), why is that a problem? (platform autocracy), and how do we the people take that power back? (protocols and open software)....

This [Open Software Initiative] definition of open source prohibits discriminating against megacorps and nazis.

That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically."

Link:

https://blog.muni.town/open-source-power/

From feeds:

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Tags:

oa.new oa.floss oa.licensing oa.software oa.monopoly oa.economics_of oa.definitions oa.objections oa.debates

Date tagged:

11/16/2025, 13:35

Date published:

11/16/2025, 08:35