Comments by "Lautaro Quiroga" (@LautaroQ2812) on "FUTO Does Not Support Open Source And That's OK" video.
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After your video, I do not think they are doing open source (as you said, that's ok!) but I do worry. Maybe perhaps because of being ignorant, I thought "open source" was just... "Not proprietary closed code" on where people could look at it and know what was going on.
Again, perhaps I'm just ignorant, so maybe I don't represent others but I do feel that me, somewhat tech savvy and that I have dipped my toes into Linux before didn't understand this properly or didn't even know about "fair code" term or even that OSD definition (I didn't even know that existed), maybe other people won't either.
And I am South American, which means most people here across several countries (minus Brazil) speak Spanish. I've heard about "Linux", "Foss" and "Open source" since I was a teenager from some (computer class) teachers at school. But I've never heard anyone mention "fair code". Not growing up in school, not on the internet up until this moment (I'm almost 30). I will repeat at the risk of being annoying: perhaps it's just me. Perhaps I dropped the ball in... not seeing that? Or whatever you wanna call it.
But I feel the term Open Source goes around willy nilly a lot and I feel a lot of people don't take these guidelines of the term into account. And my gripe is that this wouldn't be brought up by the Microsofts of the world or the Googles. This is something mentioned over and over by people in the community or within the sphere. So the fact that this ISN'T a cemented definition engrained in people's brains as a default thing... in simpler terms and with a comedic twist I see it as "FOSS advocates still fight over the definition of the key characteristic of their software after 50 years".
I think this is a great conversation to be had openly and more frequently, and that people should "press" for this to be out there much more.
Edit: So if I understand correctly to summarize: Open Source is like super omega free with no restrictions no matter how sad you feel and fair code is anything as open source as it can be but you put in some restrictions. If this is correct, then this distinction needs to be more popular, I feel it's good to know.
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