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I love opensource because over the last 2 years using Blender, all bugs I submitted were worked on and resolved. (piefed.zip)
submitted 2 weeks ago by to c/blender@lemmy.world
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Corporations only care about corporate clients and don't give a sht when I report bugs. They get put on the backburner, meanwhile with Blender I get an instant response everytime. I'm not used to reporting bugs and actually getting results. It makes me more confident and excited to use the software knowing any issues I face will prob be fixed if I report them.

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[–] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

You are doing the mashing up. Free Software came first. Free Software took over all the corporate server rooms, and so in 1996, they invented Open Source, as a means of acquiring the incredible energy of developer communities while maintaining control of the code. They are not the same, they do not come from the same place, and Open Source lacks all ethics.

Anyways, Blender is Free Software; Free Software is inherent Open Source, but it is Open Source that lacks ethics, and there is a long and concerted effort to mash up the two into a single thing. But Open Source is a corporate delusion, which will let you down sooner or later.

Open Source can become Closed Source. Free Software cannot. Do you see?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I see what you are saying, and I understand what you are referring to.

    It was stallman himself who, after working in GNU for years, went on the invent the concept of free and open software. I'm not doing any mash up. I'm referring to the 4 fundamental freedoms of free software as associated together by stallman himself and protected by the free software foundation.

    If you could provide sources it would be useful as the history of these concepts is pretty much a living history. Since the people who coined them are still alive and still write copiously about the philosophical implications of the movement.

    I have to say honestly I can't find anything that supports your comment. Perhaps only tangentially, if one assumes that some so far unarticulated and shadowy movement of Open source promotes only source available software.

    Are you referring to Bruce Perens definition of open source that is used by the open source initiative? Because they are not antagonists of the free software foundation. While it's true that it also extends to proprietary but source available software, this has been considered widely a positive rather than negative. Although different points of view exist in the analysis of how the four fundamental freedoms interact.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    GNU Manifesto published: 1985

    (edit: he did that, by the way, because he had had access to the source code of their photocopier at MIT, and the company decided to stop providing that source, which was all the rage in 1985 as Microsoft bootstrapped capitalism, rather than the weird corporate hippiedom of the 70s, as the way of technology.)

    Open Source Initiative formed: 1998. There was a manifesto of sorts around 1996 that I recall being the first time I heard people start to use Open Source instead of Free Software, and mash up the two into a single meme, when one them is completely about amputating the ethics of the other.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago*

    Ah, I see. It's just that to me that's a settled discussion and it seems to have been for a few decades now. Free software has to be open source to be free. But not all open source software is free software. That we agree on. It seems we just have different interpretations of the history. If you bother to read the free software manifesto, stallman actually uses the term open source and it also defines that free software must be open to allow three of the four fundamental freedoms to exist. Your objections seem to be political rather than philosophical. E.g. who gets to decide or control what projects are defined as what.

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