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Open Source Mythology
There are two points of popular open source mythology this post will share my experience with: People won’t use your project if you don’t use an Open Source Initiative-approved license People won’t contribute to to your project if you don’t use an Open Source Initiative-approved license Many people have ideas about how society should be like and what must be done to change institutions and to work for a revolution. But this is not enough. Often these ideas do not conform to reality and if they do conform to reality there is only one way to test them: Try to put them to work and see if they succeed. Testing our ideas in concrete work is the only way we will ever know if they are correct.
We are opposed to die-hards in the revolutionary ranks whose thinking fails to advance with changing objective circumstances and has manifested itself historically as Right opportunism. Their thinking is divorced from social practice, and they cannot march ahead to guide the chariot of society; they simply trail behind, grumbling that it goes too fast and trying to drag it back or turn it in the opposite direction. To assume that the Bolsheviks, the Chinese, the Vietnamese, the Cubans, the Algerians and other revolutionaries have not made mistakes from which they profited is not to understand that there are no blueprints for revolutions.
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