Daily reminder for FOSS participants to reject auteurs and embrace communal ownership
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Daily reminder for FOSS participants to reject auteurs and embrace communal ownership
Especially if the auteur in question is a business
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"Hare, a programming language created by Drew DeVault..."
Wrong, Hare is a programming language built by a community of over a hundred people, who collectively own its intellectual property, who are governed by a social contract that can be revised at any time by any person, including you, assuming you can build sufficient enough consensus to achieve your goals, consensus which can be built from within or without.
This is true of every FOSS project even if upstream believes otherwise.
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Dušan 🇷🇸 :arch: ⚛️replied to Drew DeVault last edited by
@drewdevault Everyone is guilty of this. Why exactly do we think like this, I don't know.
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@drewdevault The “BDFL” approach always seems incredibly unhealthy to me. Even if in some projects it happens to be working well, it seems like that must only be by sheer chance.
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@benjamineskola I am Hare's BDFL, but it's a role that serves a purpose to the community above anything else, and does not confer a notion of ownership.