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Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly (www.zdnet.com)
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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I agree that we should incentivize open source work, but my worry is that by legitimizing partial open source as "open source", you're disincentivizing fully open source work. After all, why put in the effort if you'll get the same result with way less work?

The incentive you're asking for is a disincentive against full open source, and I can guarantee you that if the existing "open source" term wasn't defended by hardliners, there'd be far less open source work in the wild than we have today.