On Sunday, 31 August 2014 at 19:58:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
Could be. That is a fairly convincing article, at least for the "time limit" version of mixed closed/open.
Glad to hear that. :) Nobody has really tried my time-limited version, which I believe is the final step.
But in any case, even if one takes the Stallman "all must be open, period" stance, the mixed stuff is STILL a step in the desired direction. So regardless of whether or not mixed is the final end-goal, it's still a good direction to taking.
This is what guys like Stallman or ketmar don't seem to get, that mixed-source still leads to _more_ open source, even if it isn't _pure_ open source. For example, the success of Android means that there's more open source code running on computing devices than ever before, a billion at last count, even if it's not _pure_ open source. As you said, that pragmatic mixed approach has done more to advance open source than their purist approach ever will. And my time-limited model advances it even more, by making sure you get the source to all the binary blobs eventually.
