3838: Consistent Open Source philosophy / Switch to Linux - Composr CMS feature tracker

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3838	Composr advocacy and funding	General / Uncategorised	public	2019-06-27 20:53	2019-08-17 00:58

Reporter	Chris Graham	Assigned To	Chris Graham
Priority	normal	Severity	feature
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed

Summary	3838: Consistent Open Source philosophy / Switch to Linux
Description	This is more of a personal issue to me, but as lead developer of Composr it reflects on Composr's marketing. I switched to a Mac a long time ago because I thought it was important to align my expectations with the best software design. However, now we're passed that, and Apple doesn't have such a big design lead anymore. I think as lead developer I would be best off switching my machines over to Linux, so I can "fully live the philosophy" of Open Source. If anything is inadequate, it provides me motivation to work with people to get things fixed, or fix them myself. The more I have thought about it, the more I've realised that trying to reach a "reasonable middle ground" for Open Source use makes no sense. When we align ourselves to powerful corporations like Google, Facebook, Apple, or Microsoft - putting dependencies on them for the best functionality, or recommending them for the best experience - we are seriously undermining what we in the Open Source community are trying to achieve. All these corporations have shown themselves hostile to the spirit of Open Source in various ways, and they all are parasitical on Open Source to some degree while holding it back by not having their 'value-add' itself as Open Source. Ideological-purity in the case of Open Source is not fanaticism, it's the necessary path to providing a complete viable solution for people and a consistent vision. In the past I've also not been so good at community spirit in Open Source, but more of someone trying to provide a critical view on how things stand to provide accurate information to people. For example, in the past I've reviewed Linux desktops and pointed out all the flaws, without then working within the community to try and get them fixed. Personally, I aim to get much better at this. Community spirit is very important to solving problems collectively, and that's at the heart of Open Source.
Additional Information	I realise the big corporations I listed all do support Open Source significantly. But all of them have closed-source software at the core of their businesses, and all of them use whatever monopoly-power they have to try and create lock-in and/or force undemocratic situations onto people.
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Chris Graham 2019-06-27 21:09 administrator ~6008	Talking about this some more, here are some examples of non-Open-Source use within Open-Source that I think undermines us... - MacOS -- as discussed above. - GitHub -- while GitHub hosts most Open Source projects, GitHub is not itself Open Source, and now it is also owned by Microsoft. Which explains why we are going to move to GitLab. - Slack -- rather than improving IRC, or making good XMPP software, most developers have standardised on an extremely closed-source system for project collaboration, Slack.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2019-06-27 20:53	Chris Graham	New Issue
2019-06-27 20:53	Chris Graham	Tag Attached: Roadmap: v11
2019-06-27 21:05	Chris Graham	Relationship added	related to 3789
2019-06-27 21:09	Chris Graham	Note Added: 0006008
2019-08-07 01:40	Chris Graham	Assigned To	=> Chris Graham
2019-08-07 01:40	Chris Graham	Status	Not Assigned => Resolved
2019-08-07 01:40	Chris Graham	Resolution	open => fixed
2023-02-26 18:29	Chris Graham	Category	General => General / Uncategorised