COSS Community 🌱

Discussion on: Is open source hostile?

Collapse
 
ben profile image
Ben Halpern

Personally, I don't think open source is hostile; people are hostile.

While this is true, open source has embraced hostility in its own special ways. Some of the founding heroes of open source are pretty damn hostile. It doesn't mean they speak for the whole space, but they have certainly helped shape it.

I think we can all agree that there is no special quality of open source that makes it hostile, and it is home to some of the most thoughtful and caring value share in existence, but I think it's helpful to be open to acknowledging the type of hostilities that can co-exist with the open source brand.