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by PaulDavisThe1st
801 days ago
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> Whose goals are you talking about? OSI's? Yours? Some average person? Just what I said in the GP: anyone interested in FLOSS It may be the case that in 2024, lots of people "do open source" as part of a business strategy. But I can assure that it was not so in 1986 (when I first encountered the GNU project) and it wasn't that way in 1999 when I started working on Ardour. |
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Except we're not monolithic. We each have our reasons, and one person's rationale for open sourcing (and with what license) may vary by project and with time.
> It may be the case that in 2024, lots of people "do open source" as part of a business strategy. But I can assure that it was not so in 1986 [...]
Not explicitly, perhaps, but already in the 70s there was something of an understanding of mind-share. Building mind-share is easily (IMO) the most important reason to go open source for any given project, though there's others too.