Don Goodman-Wilson’s moral critique of Open Source; essential reading.



“What if we look at Open Source values through the lens of moral philosophy, by applying Scanlon’s contractualist theory of morality? When we do that, I think it becomes pretty clear that we ought to discard openness as an axiom, and start thinking about other ways to build software collaboratively that do not make us accessory to horrors. We can create open communities, better communities, more inclusive communities, without Open Source.



The Open Source movement has always been focused on code. The result is a system that sadly neglects people."

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“Here are some candidate principles to guide an ethical conception of collaborative development.”

https://don.goodman-wilson.com/posts/open-source-is-broken/

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