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."