>things that should be open source but are not
>Visual Basic 6
>Apple's Talligent
>OS/2
>Win 3.1/Dos 6.22 and older
>BeOS
Things that should be open source but are not
Jacob Edwards
Alexander Cox
Shut the fuck up you self entitled 14 yr old
Jaxon Ward
DOS has its source code released
Ryan Russell
All hardware and software
Nathan Fisher
>things that should be open source but are not
your mom
Christopher Hughes
Hello there! You seem to have used the term "open source".
The term "open source" was created by a group of people that did not want to be associated with the free software movement. When I say "free" software (which is one of the alternatives preferable to "open source"). It's not about price; in that case I would say "gratis", or "free as in free beer". It's about "freedom"! This is what the free software movement is fighting for.
So what is "free" software? Free software is any software that guarantees the user the four essential software freedoms:
> 0. Run the program as you wish.
> 1. Study the source code and change it so it does what you wish.
> 2. Redistribute exact copies of the program.
> 3. Distribute your modified version of the program.
Some people decided that they wanted to restrict the user; but being able to study and modify the "open source" code is not enough! This is directly hurting the cause of the free software movement because it takes away the sociological "freedom" aspect of free software and turns it into a technological one.
So for those reasons I ask that in the future you use the terms "free", "free/libre" or, if necessary "FLOSS" (short for "free/libre and open source"), though the latter should still be avoided.
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Levi Torres
Unironically this. Keeping shit proprietary just isn't sustainable in the long run.
Open hardware in particular would be especially important, not only free software.
Owen Perez
why do we need dos source code if freedos is a perfectly fine replacement?
David Myers
but i used her last night to create a new fork?
Andrew Powell
Thread
Liam Carter
Lolis should be open source
Owen Williams
Haiku is open source.
But yeah, VB should be opened up.
Unironically, WinXP.
Leo Davis
>>BeOS
Literally Haiku, nignog
Luis Lee
>free/libre
why can't we just have libre?
Libre Open Source Software
Michael Rodriguez
I'm ok with nonfree nonlibre open source. For me it is about having the freedom to investigate EXACTLY what a program is doing
Evan Bennett
VB? Isn't Rosyln open source?
Dominic Adams
>Rosyln
Roslyn*
Jason Cooper
>Why can't we just have libre?
Because anglos cannot into languages that aren't English.
Well, I guess Los Abominacions Americanes might be able to understand the word.
>Libre Open Source
Free/libre already includes source openness, no need for the "Open Source" part. And in any case, mentioning source openness on its own is harmful to the cause of the movement for software freedom, as it implies that the problem we are facing is a technological one, instead of the sociological issue it actually is.
Andrew Hughes
>LOSS
William Murphy
For software to truly be free, we need the right to create and sell proprietary software if we choose and the freedom to choose a license (especially the freedom to reject copyleft)
Christopher Ramirez
>Every single Borland tool from the 90s
Wyatt Wright
t. I use those software but I want to be a Jow Forums meme man and I want everything open source
Kill yourself.
Levi Richardson
Its only really early versions with none of the tools they used to build it under a EULA
Haiku is not BeOS
Anthony Murphy
i cannot actually think of anything. before i used to use foobar2000, but ive completely replaced that with audacious (with exception of VST support for midi files, shame). before that i used irfanview, which i replaced with jpegview. and its built up, now i run guhnoo/linux fulltime. though, however, not libre linux. i wish i could but there is a proprietary gpu blob that my machine needs or it all remains 1024x768. you know what i think anything hardware related for software should be foss, maybe that is what people mean by "open source hardware"
Wyatt Garcia
>t. I use those software but I want to be a Jow Forums meme man and I want everything open source
All of it is pretty much useless from a business perspective, so I don't see any point in companies holding on to if its ancient and they don't profit from it anymore.