Wooh. Interesting, had no idea (about the iOS thing), thanks for sharing.
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drahardja@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The open secret of Open Source is that successful projects are largely the playground of capitalists. Who has the time to develop and maintain a whole mobile OS with all of the services people have come to expect, for no compensation? Surely the money flows in from interested parties who can then use the software to their advantage.
Much of the fundamental pieces of iOS and macOS is open source too. Darwin/XNU are open-source, but no one is under the impression that any of this effort is to benefit anyone other than Apple. Sure, Darwin-based alternative OSes exist, but let’s not kid ourselves that they are anything but curiosities, waiting to be derailed by Apple when they get too large.
4realz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Open Source labor has unintentionally been the largest transfer of wealth produced by laborers to the capitalist class in human history.
tabular@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot of open source projects use permissive licenses which lets companies just take the code and incorporate it into proprietary software. Other projects use less permissive licenses that legally compel those who use the code and redistribute the software to share their changes. For some reason many coders don’t do that. I’ve read comments that try to rationalize the choice as being “more free” for their users. That’s actually true, but unfortunately that largely includes the freedom to deny other’s any of the freedom you granted when they use the code.