Valid reasons for me are: particular interest in a project, desire to learn a language/technique/framework, genuine and intrinsic interest in a community and the open source movement.
the point I'm trying to make is that open source is already the status-quo today. calling it a movement makes it sound like it might not be here to stay. movements come and go but open source is _the_ natural state for a SW to be in. the times when we had to battle Microsoft on ideological grounds on their claims that FOSS is a problem are long gone. Nobody at Microsoft today would claim that FOSS isn't here to stay without getting laughed at by their own colleagues.
Open source / free software and its ethos are more relevant than ever today. Cloud services, automobile software, and IoT devices are just a few examples of how computing is increasingly opaque to end users.
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Valid reasons for me are: particular interest in a project, desire to learn a language/technique/framework, genuine and intrinsic interest in a community and the open source movement.
nitpick: 30 or so years later, can we still call Open Source a "movement"?
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the point I'm trying to make is that open source is already the status-quo today. calling it a movement makes it sound like it might not be here to stay. movements come and go but open source is _the_ natural state for a SW to be in. the times when we had to battle Microsoft on ideological grounds on their claims that FOSS is a problem are long gone. Nobody at Microsoft today would claim that FOSS isn't here to stay without getting laughed at by their own colleagues.
Open source / free software and its ethos are more relevant than ever today. Cloud services, automobile software, and IoT devices are just a few examples of how computing is increasingly opaque to end users.