Open-source software is becoming much more commonplace within organizations, bringing a different set of risks and perceived challenges compared to closed source or proprietary software. The Information Security Forum has released a report to help security professionals recognize the benefits and perceived challenges of using open-sources software.
Open Source is a great idea.
But the GNU GPL, a major license used by open-source, is legally enforced Communism at best, and intellectual slavery at worst.
I never see any mention of how anyone is supposed to earn a living in open-source development.
Implied is that they are on the payroll of a large corporation that has some undisclosed business model by which they make money with open-source software.
Presumably, this is outfits like Amazon, IBM, Facebook, etc. that let intellectual slaves write the software they then refine and use to drive their for-profit enterprises.
So how does this benefit anyone but monopolist corporations?
Open-source is looking like smoke-and mirrors at this point.
Frankly, it looks like a swindle.
Open Source Security Issues Exist: Deal With Them, Report Urges
Posted by: Jack M. Germain June 25, 2020 10:46 AMOpen-source software is becoming much more commonplace within organizations, bringing a different set of risks and perceived challenges compared to closed source or proprietary software. The Information Security Forum has released a report to help security professionals recognize the benefits and perceived challenges of using open-sources software.
But the GNU GPL, a major license used by open-source, is legally enforced Communism at best, and intellectual slavery at worst.
I never see any mention of how anyone is supposed to earn a living in open-source development.
Implied is that they are on the payroll of a large corporation that has some undisclosed business model by which they make money with open-source software.
Presumably, this is outfits like Amazon, IBM, Facebook, etc. that let intellectual slaves write the software they then refine and use to drive their for-profit enterprises.
So how does this benefit anyone but monopolist corporations?
Open-source is looking like smoke-and mirrors at this point.
Frankly, it looks like a swindle.