User:ScotXW/Free and open-source software
I started to rewrite the entire free and open-source software article (see a version here). Obviously the two separate articles free software and open-source software are full with garbage, so people thought it ok to dump the biggest garbage into this article. However, a real-world example I stumbled across for my "game theory"-section would be this:
| “ | The most obvious example is the change to Linux kernel packaging that happened during the RHEL 6 development cycle. Previous releases had included each individual modification that Red Hat made to the kernel as a separate patch. From RHEL 6 onward, all these patches are merged into one giant patch. This was intended to make it harder for vendors like Oracle to compete with RHEL by taking patches from upcoming RHEL point releases, backporting them to older ones and then selling that to Red Hat customers. It obviously also had the effect of hurting other distributions such as Debian who were shipping 2.6.32-based kernels - bugs that were fixed in RHEL had to be separately fixed in Debian, despite Red Hat continuing to benefit from the work Debian put into the stable 2.6.32 point releases.
It's almost three years since that argument erupted, and by and large the community seems to have accepted that the harm Oracle were doing to Red Hat (while giving almost nothing back in return) justified the change. The parallel argument in the Piston case might be that there's no reason for Red Hat to give advertising space to a company that's doing a better job of selling Red Hat's code than Red Hat are. But the two cases aren't really equal - Oracle are a massively larger vendor who take significantly more from the Linux community than they contribute back. |
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| — Matthew Garrett, blog post February 2014[1] | ||
- See also the article Business models for open-source software.
- Missing are extensive examples of dual-licensed software such as Snort. Again the Wikipedia is swarming with much shit and even more "deciders", but, e.g. category for "dual-licensed software" is missing. Maybe it could be added. Maybe it could be added to wikidata instead. After the deletion of Category:Linux Foundation platinum members I am not overly motivated to do this.