Why Open Source Failed

John Mark
10 min readJul 30, 2018

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Money” by Andrew Magill CC-BY

(If you like this essay, you may be interested in my follow-up, “Save Open Source, Save the World”)

2018 is the 20th anniversary of the term “open source”, and a good number of articles have been written and conference talks given about this landmark year, the vast majority of which have been of the self-congratulatory, navel gazing type. Unfortunately, open source proponents seem unable or unwilling to tread into…

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John Mark

Recovering evangelical. Long essays on politics, society, tech, and the intersection thereof.