> Open source was invented by big co as a "marginalized your complement" strategy, not the ideal that is marketed as.
> In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project to write a complete operating system free from constraints on use of its source code. Particular incidents that motivated this include a case where an annoying printer couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld from users.
> Last time I check rent is not free, food is not free, bus ticket is not free. No reason why software should be free.
You are welcome to sell your software. You are welcome to be replaced if you can't compete. You don't have to sell your software and we don't have to buy it. You can and will be competed with.
Trying to build a multimillion dollar venture off a UI - even a good UI - is probably unwise. It does not seem to be going well for Docker who has gone from no competitors to multiple and all of those competitors are open source.
From your very link, 1983's GNU Project was not the first piece of Open Source software.
From your link: The first example of free and open-source software is believed to be the A-2 system, developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953
> Software was not considered copyrightable before the 1974 US Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) decided that "computer programs, to the extent that they embody an author's original creation, are proper subject matter of copyright"
FOSS before 1974 looks.. funny. It existed! But it did not look like the modern FOSS movement.
Even post 1974 and pre-GNU, FOSS-ish text editors and such existed. This was still the era when licenses were often non-standard and frequently did not exist. Handing your friend a copy of a program was the norm, regardless the actual legal situation (which itself was probably vague and unspecified).
> In 1983, Richard Stallman launched the GNU Project to write a complete operating system free from constraints on use of its source code. Particular incidents that motivated this include a case where an annoying printer couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld from users.
from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sou...
> Last time I check rent is not free, food is not free, bus ticket is not free. No reason why software should be free.
You are welcome to sell your software. You are welcome to be replaced if you can't compete. You don't have to sell your software and we don't have to buy it. You can and will be competed with.
Trying to build a multimillion dollar venture off a UI - even a good UI - is probably unwise. It does not seem to be going well for Docker who has gone from no competitors to multiple and all of those competitors are open source.