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Where the free software movement went wong-and how to fix it.

Finley, Klint
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/06/where-the-free-software-movement-went-wrong-and-how-to-fix-i

Publisher:  Tech Crunch
Date Written:  06/04/2013
Year Published:  2013  
Resource Type:  Article

Finley discusses the differences between Free Software and OpenSource software from a political perspective.

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The biggest change I've seen in the tech industry in the past decade isn't social media, cloud computing, big data, consumerization or even mobile. It’s the mainstream acceptance of open source. Even 10 years ago open source was controversial. Back then "open vs. proprietary" arguments would still erupt at meetings and parties. Back then vendors spread FUD about open source. Today, every vendor wants to call themselves "open."

Why is that? Writer Evgeny Morozov traces it back to Tim O'Reilly and his media/conference empire in a long piece for The Baffler published this week.

According to Morozov, O’Reilly hijacked Richard Stallman's free software movement and turned it into the more corporate-friendly open source movement. From there, O'Reilly would go on to redefine web freedom as freedom for companies like Google to do whatever they want online, and to redefine open government not as a movement for transparency and accountability but as the need to give free data sets to for-profit companies.

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