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# Open $ource
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*Not to be confused with Free Software*
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Open Source (also open $ource) is a neoliberal and capitalist perversion of the [Free Software Movement](free_software.md)
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that abandons the main principles of Free Software: freedom and ethics, in exchange of maximum profit and exploit of programmers and users.
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Megacorporations love "open source" since it gives them positive PR: "see our source code is OPEN!" but due to the lack of ethics, this
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software is almost the same as proprietary software in terms of abuse to their users.
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The Open Source movement promotes permissive licenses (and not the GPL) so they can profit from code written by unpaid programmers, for example
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see the sad case with the BSDs operating systems, Apple and Sony has been making billions of dollars from the gratis effort of FreeBSD
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developers, while giving NOTHING in exchange, NOT EVEN source code, NOT EVEN a USD penny in donations.
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Average Open $ource program: bloated, has DRM, autoupdates, constant influx of "new" features and business-oriented features,
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uses proprietary chat/forum software (Discord, Slack, etc.), promotes proprietary software as something that is "not that bad",
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walled gardens, codes of censorship, etc.
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