Open Source Explained

Good explanation. Sadly ironic given IBM's attempt to bring Rhel back into proprietary control.

that sounds great, how does one begin to go about finding bugs? I have used beta software in the past and those typically have ways to report bugs that are found. is this what you would recommend or are there other methods of bug hunting?

There is a point that needs to be added to all this Open Source thing. Justice.

We need correlational licences that combine Freedom + Justice.

Patent law covers computer software, not copy right. You do not copy write a wheel. Machine code. Machine.

Patent law provides for free or low cost technology, they expire or owners can charge little or nothing.

Creating open source however, has relied on copy right law, which is a no no. It has violated copy right law, which provides unconditional transformative copy writes, a power Congress reserved, to create more, not free intellectual property.

So then open source is one of two things, patentable, or not. If not, it is free anyway. If it is patentable, but you do not patent it, that is called patent abandonment of your 'discovery'.

We can also go to the most basic levels of patent law and say a cpu unit and hardware are so general purpose, that software can not be patentable since there is no other way to run the machine, but by eventually duplicating the code of others, even if working independently.

I have no way of knowing that can or will happen. The results of ignoring these concepts has damaged economies, as software not being run through a patent office, has cost people time and money trying to run machines with broken drivers, software and bugs.

AI? AI now stands for Automated Intellectual property theft? Where are the foot notes depicting source data? You know, like when you did a paper in college, you have to provide source material?

This is exactly why I loudly complained when Google began scraping web pages, instead of just exposing robot page data or customer provided copy.

So why should I or you create content, knowing hundreds or thousands will just index it and add it to their portfolio?

This is why Word Press became so popular? You could easily scrape content of another site, apply a new theme, and voila, Jersey Boy on Social Security has a blog on Yoga, a real expert?

And you felt like crap trying to fix his plugin he spent some money on, hoping to make a couple hundred extra bucks to supplement his income, and knowing he had no prayer running with a group faster at creating new content then he could?

Lets not talk about the lady who figured out how to feel good with yoga, she was stupid enough to share? Horrors. I don't know how these people sleep at night.

That part of the industry makes the rest of you look bad?

Really good video. Thank you

Stellar explanation!

Thats really good! Thanks for your explanation!

Great explanation on OSS ecosystem!

Loved the explanation!

Excellent explanation. I love open source.

But how to earn money 💰💵 from free software?

Thanks for the video, this was great content on OPEN source 👌

I ❤️ OPEN SOURCE! Nicely explained. Thanks for sharing.

Not one single mention of Stallman.
Shame IBM... Shame...