Re: [osdcmy] What about "closed core"?

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Ghod, It might just catches fire. I reckon modernist terms emerge when opportunists try to redefine something as pure open code just to wear a price tag and get them their next dinner plate. It happened to their health care services, happened to desktop computing, happened to have 1 lawyer to every 265 Americans. Thats USA, land of the bill and fee. On 3/20/11 4:07 PM, Ghodmode wrote: On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Slaya Chronicles - Geeko Acolyte <msiantuxlo...@gmail.com> wrote: Closed Core == sounds like FOSS, smells like FOSS, looks like FOSS but it ain't FOSS. "Open Core" is a real term and that all applies, but (I think) I made up that term "Closed Core" and I don't even know if the concept is valid. It seems to me that "Open Core" implementations are basically a lie told to consumers to lock them into proprietary software before they realize it.  Because of the lie, it's worse than regular proprietary software. In the "Open Core" concept, if all of that proprietary stuff wrapped around the FLOSS base went away, the core software would still be okay. In this "Closed Core" concept I'm describing, if the proprietary core of the applications goes away, none of the FLOSS applications built around it would work any more. It would be like we had all of the GNU utilities without a Linux kernel to run them on.  In fact, it really happened that way 30 years ago. GNU was developed without the Linux kernel (ref: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html ). So, what I'm wondering is whether or not "Closed Core" is a valid concept and if we can apply that term to free Facebook apps, for example.  I suppose a similar concept could be applied to free Windows software that requires proprietary libraries. What do we, as a community, think about this?  Should we discourage this type of software development?  If the closed core (i.e.: Facebook or Windows) went away, would the apps go away, be rewritten to work on another API, or would we write a new core implementing the missing APIs? We're actually two groups in one... FLOSS enthusiasts and Software Developers.  As a developer I say "ooohh! Facebook API... cool!", but as a FLOSS enthusiast I don't like Facebook's limitations or secrets. -- Ghodmode http://www.ghodmode.com/blog   -- To unsubscribe from and detail about this group http://portal.mosc.my/osdc-my-mailing-list-information   MOSC2011 http://fb.me/mosc2011 and http://portal.mosc.my/