Comment Comment by zitsarethecure ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers). parent zitsarethecure 1 year ago
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/
Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).