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Open Source Did Not Win, It Was Assimilated to and by Proprietary Software

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Roy Schestowitz
Feb 20, 2020

Don’t fall for the whole ‘Open Source has won!’ spiel; You know we?ve lost the battle (and were in effect gradually conquered) at OSI and elsewhere when those who speak for the OSI are Michael Cheng (Facebook), Max Sills (Google), and Chris Aniszczyk (Linux Foundation); they say ?Open Source Under Attack? (FOSDEM talk) but their employers are the ones attacking and they downplay openwashing
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Roy Schestowitz

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