[License-review] For Approval: License Zero Reciprocal Public License

[Bruce Perens]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:
>
> I mention these folks and their views, and plead to have
> them considered, because the matter of what comes to mind
> when people see and say "open source" isn't a contest of
> rigor, or first claim, or internal consistency.  Numbers are
> relevant.  So is audience.  So is a certain prestige amongst
> developer-kind.
>

Well, this is a point that I believe needs to be made to everyone concerned
with _marketing_ the idea of Open Source: We won. We are so pervasive in
industry that it is scary, and industry is actually feeling the negative
effects of software monoculture upon security because of the pervasive use
of a number of popular Open Source programs and the need to keep updated
and to push those updates out to customers (which is surprisingly difficult
to get some companies to accept). Rather than evangelize to outsiders about
Open Source, we now need to evangelize to insiders about how to keep safe.

Having won, the only thing we can do to further increase use of Open Source
is to stop being as Open as we presently are. Which would, of course,
ultimately be self-defeating.

Of course, we can fill in some number of smaller enterprises that don't
have the message yet. But if you are expecting large, further increases in
uptake of Open Source to match those in the recent past, go work on Open
Science and Open Publication instead.

    Thanks

    Bruce
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