* Paul Frields:
That statement rings hollow for me, when Github is arguably the
single
biggest vendor of open source in the world, no part of itself is open
source, and thanks to its pervasiveness, open source has won the war
of how development should work.
For those who think this statement is bizarre: Gmail is also strongly
associated with open-source development, but is not itself open source.
Many people also seem to believe they do open-source development once
their proprietary product targets GNU/Linux (as opposed to Windows or
Android).
Meanwhile, some of us struggle with being accepted as open source
because we offer corresponding source code along with binaries,
but neither is freely downloadable from the public Internet.
To me, that suggests that the term “open source” has become largely
meaningless. The concept is still important to me, but the term itself
is about as ambiguous now as “free software” always was.
Thanks,
Florian