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0 pointscryptonector1y ago0 comments

Whose goals are you talking about? OSI's? Yours? Some average person?

Open source is always part of a business strategy, typically even for individual tinkerers since they can use their own open source work/contributions as part of their portfolio and thus leverage it to get more and better contract work / jobs.

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PaulDavisThe1st1y ago

> 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.

cryptonectorOP1y ago

> Just what I said in the GP: anyone interested in FLOSS

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.

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