A Tale of Two Software
Alan Levine,
CogDogBlog,
Oct 31, 2021
Alan Levine draws a distinction between one software, which is open source, and another, which is "'free' software owned by one of the biggest commercial firms in the biz." The open source software is Discourse while the commercial software is Flipgrid, which was absorbed by Microsoft in 2018. The 'tale' here isn't surprising: the support for the open source software was immediate and useful, while the commercial software threw up some access barriers that were pointless and confusing. My own observation is that both Microsoft and Google have been trying to collect all these social applications under 'teams' or 'workplaces' such that people must 'belong' to one in order to access the application. The business model here is that the organization or institution that created the team or workspace will pay a subscription fee.
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