Jem Matzan’s The Jem Report is running a so-called editorial by Radu-Cristian Fotescu (aka. Béranger) titled The sorry state of open source today. I say so-called, because it is more of a rant than an editorial: 26 pages long and not entirely coherent.
I won’t waste your time with a point-by-point rebuttal of this piece, not least because most of what he writes is pure opinion and interpretation. I don’t necessarily agree with it—I find him a little too radical and a little too confrontational—but he’s entitled to it.
(I do agree with his views on the differences between the GPL and the BSD license, but that’s neither here nor there)
What I take exception to are factual errors in his discussion of *BSD, and specifically of FreeBSD.
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