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Atom 文本编辑器——GitHub 的折扣开源

GitHub 的新文本编辑器并不完全开源,看起来并没有人在意这一点。

Samuel Greenwald 认为“任何 IT 领袖如果没有开源观念,那注定会失败。” 然而即使你的开源观念打了折扣、不那么纯粹,其实大众也并不会刁难你。特别是在你祭出古怪反复的许可证花招时,即使是开源界最精明的精英也可能被忽悠住。

例如就拿GitHub来说。GitHub 刚刚发布了Atom文本编辑器,获得了很多赞赏。虽然有些人赞美Atom“完全开源”,但其实它并非如此。在我看来,还差得很远。

某种打折扣的开源

不管怎样,并不是说 GitHub 把Atom 全部伪装成开源。正如 GitHub 联合创始人Tom Preston-Werner所说只有“Atom 核心”代码将会是闭源的而“其余现有的所有Atom 代码将永远遵守 MIT-licensed许可证。”原因纯粹是商业化的他这么解释道:

Atom将不会封闭源代码但它也不会开源。它将介于两者之间这样我们更易于对 Atom 进行掌控,同时,人们还可以在许可证的限制下看到它如何运行。关于这一点,我们还没有最终决定究竟如何具体实施。我们将在充分的细节准备后正式启动。

早在开源的初期,我们就有了这个概念。事实上,微软也是这么做的。微软称之为“共享源代码”, 于2002年推出共享源代码是微软为其社区提供的一种方式用来监测但不触及或重新分配微软的源代码。SAP 的大数据主管 Vijay Vijayasankar 提醒我们对微软来说这个方法没有这么好但对GitHub 可能会做的更好:

@dberkholz我记得OSI人士严重批评了微软说这是微软的一个营销噱头。但这次 GitHub 会做得更好 — Vijay Vijayasankar (@vijayasankarv) 2014年2月27日

他也许是对的。

GitHub 时代神圣不可侵犯

毕竟,微软是邪恶帝国,一直将开源抹黑为“毒瘤”之类的东西。而 GitHub无论在哪儿都是开源项目的养父母。 2013年 GitHub突破千万代码库增添300万新用户每周狂热的活跃量包括20,000个问题50,000个评论250,000个来自世界各地贡献者的提交保证了代码库进展。

换句话说GitHub是零起点的开源项目。

也许正因为如此GitHub 得到了一个免费通行证。在HackerNews评论上,少数人似乎过于在意,他们认为 GitHub 没有真正开源 Atom。作为一个社区开源已经在很大程度上战胜了免费软件少教条更实用。我们已经身处这样一个节点许多所谓的“GitHub一代”甚至懒得去费心将许可证分配给他们的软件

这是好事吗?

很难说,甚至很难与 GitHub 的做法争辩,它带给世界一个高品质、低成本的文本编辑器,似乎并没有伤害任何人,潜在里还可能帮助许多人。开源社区是自由意志论者:并不愿意去制定许可证,它更关心的是良好的代码和产品。

这就是为什么 GitHub、Atlassian 和 Amazon 的 Web 服务都依赖于专有软件或服务来赚钱,同时却如此惊人地受到开源开发者的欢迎。

你了解了吗?


via: http://readwrite.com/2014/02/28/github-atom-text-editor#feed=/hack&awesm=~oxpErHVIIaxz3H

译者:乌龙茶 校对:Caroline Mr小眼儿

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