Or, maybe the "community" (if there is one) is fed up with framing the entire discussion along the lines of Free vs Open, which clearly hasn't helped with anything. At least it hasn't helped to keep Linux sane (what's the use of it when it's being pulled into vendor-dominated directions a la systemd, gnome, and k8s?). Nor has it stopped the mass enslavement of business, users, and devs into "The Cloud". Nor has it stopped Linux to become world's largest spynet (Android).
GNU started with the goal of bringing free/open alternatives to a Unix/POSIX-like user-space, dev tools environment, and operating system, out of a sense of freedom and a strong distaste towards playing to the tune of big players. F/OSS was never about innovation, so with Linux and the (shortly later opened-up) BSD being excellent alternatives in the mid/late-90s, where's the noble goal today, when F/OSS is abundant "on github", and cloud providers are taking advantage of it?
I upvoted you (despite being an avowed team "Free" type) because I think you're right,
> the entire discussion along the lines of Free vs Open ... clearly hasn't helped with anything.
The whole point of Free (I don't know what the point of "Open" source is, but I don't want to engage in all that here) software is that the user can edit the code.
I was thinking only this morning that smartphones aren't really computers, they are malls. Sure there's a computer in there, several, but only in the same way that there are computers in your car.
And everybody is okay with this.
And it's safer!
And the freedoms you're losing you didn't know about in the first place anyway so no one misses them.
I don't like it but it looks to me like humans are shaping up to be cells in some sort of mega-cyborg.
GNU started with the goal of bringing free/open alternatives to a Unix/POSIX-like user-space, dev tools environment, and operating system, out of a sense of freedom and a strong distaste towards playing to the tune of big players. F/OSS was never about innovation, so with Linux and the (shortly later opened-up) BSD being excellent alternatives in the mid/late-90s, where's the noble goal today, when F/OSS is abundant "on github", and cloud providers are taking advantage of it?