We're living in a post-open source world | Linux Today

We’re living in a post-open source world

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Matt Asay
Jul 23, 2014

After years of bitter feuds between free software and open source advocates, open source won. But it was a temporary victory. While proponents of Apache-style licensing had a brief period to gloat, the GitHub generation seems determined to take open source to its logical conclusion: releasing most software under no license at all.

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Matt Asay

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