**“Open source” is not broken** I read this article (“Open Source” is Broken by Xe) written in the aftermath of the unfortunate log4j2 fiasco. The author discusses a pertinent problem that has plagued the FOSS (Free and Open Source) world ever since large for-profit corporations started their widespread consumption of FOSS, ever since countless “unicorns” raised infinite amounts of funding on valuations built pretty much entirely on FOSS, ever since FOSS got co-opted into corporatisation and cap ... ⌘ Read more

…#zaoprhq) @osnews No I agree, Open Source **is not** broken. What is broken is our insatiable thirst for power and wealth. Humans are broken. Open Source has just been abused by sooo many corporations…

…#zaoprhq) > The fact that the maintainers of this small but important piece of software barely received any donations or other forms of financial support, despite their software being extensively us…

…#zaoprhq) @prologic I respectfully disagree. Software is offered or sold on terms, and if corporations aren't giving back, that's because they don't have to: Most people with money have it because the…

…#zaoprhq) I would agree with the original claim, that open source is broken, because we've let small groups of people (OSI and FSF) hold very arbitrary and restrictive rules that prohibit fixing the i…

…#zaoprhq) Personally I'm very fond of permissive licensing like MIT for things that I work on myself, but I also am not looking for financial support from any of these efforts. But we can't set licens…