I meant that “open source” achieved pop culture level recognition. Libre software never did, most people are still unaware of the difference or don’t care.
A popular claim against open source is that it alone is insufficient to prevent abuse (here: accumulation of power).
Recent decade has shown many cases of that, with corporations adopting open source projects without giving power to their users; e.g.: Android or cloud services.
Perhaps if we understood open source less as a process and more as a movement (so: if libre software movement was more popular) things would be different.
I can agree that the original aims of the movement haven't fully caught on, especially the subtle difference between Open Source and Free/Libre software. The pragmatic side of better security, low-bureaucracy standardization, and low price won out over Freedom for freedom's sake.
To me that's most apparent today with LLMs. Those are completely proprietary and privately controlled, yet the software world now LOVES them.
A popular claim against open source is that it alone is insufficient to prevent abuse (here: accumulation of power).
Recent decade has shown many cases of that, with corporations adopting open source projects without giving power to their users; e.g.: Android or cloud services.
Perhaps if we understood open source less as a process and more as a movement (so: if libre software movement was more popular) things would be different.