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Comment by jraph

The open source initiative was initially about hiding the political and philosophical aspects behind the free software movement (that's the second part of your (1)). (hence the "Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software" essay [1]). With some benefit of the doubt, one could imagine that it was a well-meaning move to make companies do free software so we could all enjoy the freedom it gives, without them feeling they are doing dirty politics. This hasn't worked out: programs targeting end users are still proprietary for the most part.

I'm not sure what's bad about 2. What's quite bad however IMHO is the push to use permissive licenses and the anti (A)GPL FUD that these big tech companies spread. Of course it is very convenient to them that every library under the sun is under MIT or BSD, so they can built proprietary software more efficiently.

Note: the OSI recognizes the AGPL as an open source license so at least the set of "big tech approved licenses" is not the same set as the OSI approved licenses.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

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