Open source
 Open source  (software)   | |
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| Interest of | • Nikolai Bezroukov • Lawrence Lessig • Roy Schestowitz • Softpanorama |
| Publicly verifiable software. Recommended. | |
Open source is source code that is cooperatively made freely available for viewing, possible modification, and redistribution.
Open-source is not limited to but most commonly refers to:
- Open-source software, is distributed with the source code, allowing computer scientists to verify its integrity and potentially to fix it themselves. Closed source, by contrast, cannot be verified by end users, and so is effectively impossible to change and may contain computer viruses, trojan horses or other such malware.
- Open-source license
- Open-source model, a decentralized development model that encourages open collaboration.
Open-source movements are a response to the limitations of proprietary code, products, developments, enterprises, manufacturing, organizations, productions, and/or projects that span many fields:
Origins
Originally, software coders and users were the same tiny set of academics, so all software was open source by default. Richard Stallman played a major role in the development of the open source movement and started the GNU project, which lead on to GNU/Linux in the 1990s.[1]
FLOSS
FLOSS (and FOSS) is short for "Free/Libre Open-Source Software", applied any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute the software in any manner they see fit, free of and charge, fees, fine, or royalties. Free can mean liberty or no-charge, so it's better to indicated both to avoid confusion.[citation needed]
"Open source research"
The phrase "open source" has acquired enough popularity to be used in other contexts. A 2018 document leaked from the Integrity Initiative, Unleashing the Capacity of Civil Society to Counter Disinformation, makes ten mentions of the phrase "open source", particularly with regard to "open source research". This seems to apply only to information which is "public facing" (a phrase that receives seven mentions), not the origins of that information. The 8 page "Appendix C: Information Sharing Framework" is not about sharing information sources with the public - it details the group's obsessive secrecy, including use of A.I. to detect and flag up unusual behaviour by its staff.[citation needed]
Problems
Open-source is wonderfully altruistic when benevolent people are in charge. With just as much access to the "free/libre" code as anyone else, the corporatocracy and technocracy will support, fund, and exploit open-source movements and their projects until no longer in their interests to allow the competition, citizens, culture, or societies to have nice things for free. Large corporations with deep pockets (Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, etc.) will infiltrate the open-source projects, replace board members, and promote woke politics to subvert the founding primary goals until little remains and the project has been bought out and destroyed.[citation needed]
Examples:
- Google lead the open-source development of the Android operating system for phones, paying the volunteer coders nothing, then developed proprietary features compelling people to voluntarily submit to their surveillance for the convenience of the extra features.
- Linux is going to switch from reliable open FLOSS GNU to a different license and use glitchy Rust. This is very not good.
- Mozilla, used to produce the best web browser and e-mail client software, yet supported by Google are now only focused on Diversity Equity Inclusion activism.
- Reddit was an open-source software platform until 2013, since promoting the LGBT agenda. SaidIt is based on the old Reddit code.
- Wikipedia was openly developed but the noose of weaponized bureaucracy has made it impossible to counter the CIA and Mossad infiltrated platform pushing the corporate media's official narrative
| Open Source Initiative Rigs Board Election to Keep Out Open Source Advocates (30:12) ~ The Lunduke Journal, 2025-03-22. |
| Is Woke-ism Being Weaponized to Destroy Free & Open Source Software? (15:56) ~ The Lunduke Journal, 2025-03-13. |
| "Eric Raymond & Lunduke Argue About the Origin of "Open Source"" (29:58) ~ The Lunduke Journal, 2025-02-18. |
| "Open Source is Anti-Free Speech" (34:35) ~ The Lunduke Journal, 2025-02-06. |
