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       title: February 22nd, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-02-22, 22:30:14 -08:00

     

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       section: journal

     

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       link: https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/towards-software-commons/

     

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         - opensource

     

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         - softwarecommons

     

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       Following on [[Paying people to work on open source is good actually]], Chad Whitacre proposes [[Software Commons]] as the big tent definition of open source in his post [[Towards Software Commons]].

     

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       From the [Wikipedia definition](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information_commons&oldid=1186082015#Software_commons):

     

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       > The _software commons_ consists of all computer software which is available at little or no cost and which can be reused with few restrictions. It includes open source software which can be modified with few restrictions. However the commons also includes software outside of these categories

     

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       I like it!

     

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_notes/Software Commons.md

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         - opensource

     

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         - softwarecommons

     

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       Emerging name for [[Paying people to work on open source is good actually#Lower Case Open Source|lower case open source]]

     

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       Kicked off in [[Towards Software Commons]]

     

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       Definition from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information_commons&oldid=1186082015#Software_commons) as a superset of FOSS:

     

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       > The _software commons_ consists of all computer software which is available at little or no cost and which can be reused with few restrictions. It includes open source software which can be modified with few restrictions. However the commons also includes software outside of these categories

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_notes/Towards Software Commons.md

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       link: https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/towards-software-commons/

     

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         - softwarecommons

     

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         - article

     

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       published: 2024-02-22

     

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         - Chad Whitacre

     

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       Riffs on [[Paying people to work on open source is good actually]] and suggests  [[Software Commons]] as the big tent term for open software with restrictions that support sustainability.

     

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       Points to [Github discussion](https://github.com/getsentry/fsl.software/issues/2#issuecomment-1960804749) for further collaboration.