Project Harmony Considered Harmful

“Very soon, you’re likely to see a marketing blitz for this
thing called Project Harmony (which just released its 1.0 version
of document templates). Even the name itself is marketing: it’s not
actually descriptive, but is so named to market a “good feeling”
about the project before even knowing what it is. (It’s also got
serious namespace collision, including with a project already in
the software freedom community.

“Project Harmony markets itself as fixing something that our
community doesn’t really consider broken. Project Harmony is a set
of document templates, primarily promulgated and mostly drafted by
corporate lawyers, that entice developers to give control of their
software work over to companies.”

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