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Free Software and Openwashing Campaigns

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 10th of February 2021 12:02:09 AM Filed under
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    I recently had the occasion to try and find a definition of “proprietary” in terms of software that is not on Wikipedia. Most of the discussion on the issue I found was focused on what free and open source software is, and that anything that isn’t FOSS is proprietary. I don’t think the debate is as simple as this, especially if you want to get into conversations about nuance around things like Open Core.

    [...]

    I’ll start by proposing the following definition:

    Proprietary software is software that comes with restrictions on what users can do with the software and the source code that constitutes said software.

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    Our old mission statement was pretty wordy and didn't succinctly encompass all the work that we do anymore. The OSI finds itself in a very different place than we were when we started. Open source software is everywhere now and the tech landscape has changed quite a bit. The needs of the open source community are more varied and little more complicated than they were in 1998. We aim to meet the needs of a larger, more global community and that means declaring our intent to embrace change and update our tactics.

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