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Petty factionalism within Open Source where if you don't support the latest views of the GNU committee and Dear Leader then you are against open source (which is ridiculous). Largest dispute has been a lot of GPL projects that won't move to v3 since there are a lot of problems with it. Not even worth replying to, in my opinion. |
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I agree with this, so I hesitated to reply... BUT I feel it's important to point out one thing.
You're using the term "Open Source" (capitalized, even), which is a related ideology, but still distinct. It's jarring to read:
> If you don't support the latest views of the GNU committee and Dear Leader then you are against open source
when the FSF discourages use of the term "open source"[0]!
That said, you're right that this is all pretty silly factionalism. People love to focus on less important differences[1], while ignoring the more important larger picture.
Even the FSF doesn't consider "open source" (or the GPLv2) to be bad; they consider themselves both fighting for the same result, just with different motivations. As far as they are concerned, the GPLv2 is fine; the GPLv3 just happens to be a bit better.
[0] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.htm... (Don't be fooled by the title - the FSF views "Open Source" as an ally, not a rival).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...