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byBorgDrone ( 64343 ) writes:
Linux and FOSS also are more hidden than ever. So many of those FOSS projects on GitHub ultimately are used as building blocks for proprietary software.
To me this is the natural position for FOSS to be in. Build the components needed by the majority of people together, while the parts needed by only a small group of people can be built as proprietary software by smaller groups of people.
It's not so much the view that all software should be free, but more of a pragmatic one: we all need these parts, so why not build these together instead of everyone re-inventing the wheel.
byTheRaven64 ( 641858 ) writes:
It's also something that people need to stop viewing as a bad thing. The most FOSS in a proprietary product, the easier it is to build a fully FOSS alternative.
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