"I begged and pleaded for them to support this feature, and they said, 'No, it's only for nerds, no one will get it,'" said Mr. Messina, an open-source advocate who runs a technology consulting firm, Citizen Agency.
"A new pragmatism is rising," says Matt Asay, an open-source advocate and an executive at Alfresco, which makes open-source software that helps firms manage digital content.The "free and open-source software" movement, as it is officially called, has come a long way from its anti-establishment origins.
"One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist".
While marketers and advertising agencies strive to command your decisions in the "attention economy", long-time open source advocate Doc Searls puts forward a better idea in his new book, The Intention Economy.
As part of the move, he will stay on as founder and open source advocate at the MariaDB Foundation.
So wait a tick — these open source advocates are doing exactly that: marketing their products, and yet they're still doing it wrong?
Many - and not just open source advocates - have called for the reform of the patent system.
But open source advocates are up in arms about it also being installed with the open source variant Chromium, because the listening code is considered to be "black box", not part of the open source audit process.
Usually when open source advocates and coders talk about Microsoft, they spell it with a $.
The Register pooh-poohs the notion of open source advocates contacting President Obama, calling it "toothless".
Open source advocates believe that economics will inevitably make proprietary code go the way of the dodo.
