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The definitions of what free and what open-source software is are major cultural achievements. They have inspired similar definitions for data, content, and other types of resource…

tl;dr According to the blog post's author (me): No

A by now classic rundown of the major innovations open source has given us

> Either this guy is high off his ass and I want some, or has reached the astral plane of scamming VCs. Really just work, 9 to 5, and rather mediocre cafeteria food.

> I was just thinking about this. I think LGPL was a great idea, but unfortunately, business rejected it, because contrary to free market ideology, they are interested in having co…

Hey David, is this a no to the "let's celebrate"?

> So close to getting it right... Consider the countercase, where the company says up front that the product is only open source temporarily. Would anyone use them? Maybe, but they…

> Is "open source strategy" purely an economic tool? I though there was as much societal and political motivations involved as economic. There are many different types of open sour…

> But it is not a forgone conclusion that the software eventually going closed was a requirement of that VC investment. True, but it is the best option these vendors currently see,…