07-24-2023, 12:52 PM
As I introduced in Thread Ideas, this thread focuses on topics such as the demand of Open Source, the Free Software Movement, and the devoted following attracted to this. Because the Thread Ideas page garnered a few replies about the subject, it would be better for it to move over to Gotterdaemmerung.
Recounting the initial pitch, figures like Richard Stallmann had written and contributed to the cause of open source software, with people railing against proprietary software and those companies that have forbidden its userbase to have possession of the code. One can compare this growth of code secrecy to companies like id Software, which released the source code of Doom in the 90s to its fans for their benefit. The impression of those who are aligned with the open source/Free Software Movement is that such secrecy limits the innovation and efficiency, and those individuals who seek to alter the code of proprietary software are Good Samaritans of software.
Despite the movement being of almost exclusive significance to Internet users, the growth of the Internet has not been aiding its popularity; instead, there is a greater and greater obscurity for the movement itself. It simply does not attract anyone new. Without doing a needless summary of some of the replies, it could be because a true widespread adoption of open source is an exploitation of autist efforts. Even if Microsoft and other companies had guaranteed its transition into an open source OS, the demand must rest on the most knowledgeable users without reward.
As said in the initial pitch, there could be a variety of reasons that the open source demand did not take root with a large Internet audience: it could be that the industry has experienced large growths in non-white influence, that are indifferent to this cause. Since the movement spans from an earlier time of software/OS development, those who have only recently arrived and been employed are separate from this history. The lessening of expertise among Internet users could also be an explanation, as the steady quantitative increase of Internet users poses a gradual loss of experience and skill with technology. And, lastly, it could be simply irrelevant compared to larger issues that face people today. "What good would it serve to attend only to this?", one might think.
Hopefully the discussion was not exhausted by the short discussion in the Thread Ideas page. If any of the users there want to revise and add onto their original insights, that could help.
Recounting the initial pitch, figures like Richard Stallmann had written and contributed to the cause of open source software, with people railing against proprietary software and those companies that have forbidden its userbase to have possession of the code. One can compare this growth of code secrecy to companies like id Software, which released the source code of Doom in the 90s to its fans for their benefit. The impression of those who are aligned with the open source/Free Software Movement is that such secrecy limits the innovation and efficiency, and those individuals who seek to alter the code of proprietary software are Good Samaritans of software.
Despite the movement being of almost exclusive significance to Internet users, the growth of the Internet has not been aiding its popularity; instead, there is a greater and greater obscurity for the movement itself. It simply does not attract anyone new. Without doing a needless summary of some of the replies, it could be because a true widespread adoption of open source is an exploitation of autist efforts. Even if Microsoft and other companies had guaranteed its transition into an open source OS, the demand must rest on the most knowledgeable users without reward.
As said in the initial pitch, there could be a variety of reasons that the open source demand did not take root with a large Internet audience: it could be that the industry has experienced large growths in non-white influence, that are indifferent to this cause. Since the movement spans from an earlier time of software/OS development, those who have only recently arrived and been employed are separate from this history. The lessening of expertise among Internet users could also be an explanation, as the steady quantitative increase of Internet users poses a gradual loss of experience and skill with technology. And, lastly, it could be simply irrelevant compared to larger issues that face people today. "What good would it serve to attend only to this?", one might think.
Hopefully the discussion was not exhausted by the short discussion in the Thread Ideas page. If any of the users there want to revise and add onto their original insights, that could help.