"It is time we stop the term open source from getting hijacked. I recently wrote about how tech media doesn’t get open source. The events in the last week or so have confirmed my thesis further."
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can.axis
1 year 9 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago
it is simpler to speak about technologies;
it is simpler to speak about technologies; some proposals around terminologies:
- Software Robots
- RESTful web services
- Agents-Ressources
Software Robot could be free or proprietary; but today, they are not covered by GPL, arent't they? I'm sure they will in the future; so it'll be possible to talk about Free Software Robot, as we talk about Free Software today...
kiba
1 year 9 weeks 4 days 16 hours ago
This confirm my suspicion. The
This confirm my suspicion.
The term open source is becoming diluted.
Open source as a term sucks anyway.
However, nobody tried to hijack Free softwares just yet. It doesn't lend itself well to marketingspeak :)