We Need to Save What Made Linux and FOSS Possible

That happened because it was too easy for too many developers to build proprietary and closed stuff, heads down, in utterly practical ways, usually for what amounted to embedded purposes, on top of Linux and FOSS foundations, with little respect for the virtues embodied in those foundations. It’s a sad bookend to the history of a losing fight that Cory Doctorow forecast in 2011 with “Lockdown: the coming war on general-purpose computing” and a year later in “The Coming Civil War over General Purpose Computing”. I chose general-purpose computing as the winning fight—the one most worth having—because we wouldn’t have Linux, free software or open source today if there weren’t general-purpose computers to develop and use them on.

Source: www.linuxjournal.com