Why open?
Ben Werdmuller,
Apr 02, 2019
This is open source the way I understand it too. "I'm beginning to think of open source as operating like a union... in the open source movement, developers all act together to build products that counterbalance the impact of high-growth platforms in order to create a better ecosystem. I think there's value in standing in opposition to the status quo. Open source is a bottom-up, worker-led movement. The means and outputs of production are available to everybody. I think that's beautiful - and, in a world where every aspect of our lives has been packaged and monopolized for profit, a powerful force for good." Plus this: "I'm pretty sure Eric Raymond, who originally coined "open source" because he felt the free software movement was associated with communism, would hate this framing. Too bad." And all this is something various proponents of commercial OER should note well.
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