tallship, en-us

Let's pretend we're proponents of free and open source software, enlist an army of week intentioned FOSS developers to contribute to our project, and once successfully deployed in many enterprises across the industry...

Pull the rug out and convert it into a proprietary product with a bunch of undisclosed, hidden code that we won't ever show you - Muahahaha...

Yeah. I see this happening right now in several prominent and celebrated open source projects that you're probably completely oblivious to those sinister objectives.

This is why the most ubiquitous desktop operating system in the world is Minix.

What's that you say?

Yup, Minix. But that's no secret, the cat was out of the bag on that one a few years back (after being secretly so for many years).

Before you contribute any more code, translations, or documentation to a software project, consider this:

drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Don…

Next up? How Minix became the most prolific operating system in the world today. Stay tuned!

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