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commit: 399e0f72f7e61c4d837961ac9c447b26b530d5b5
parent 24f7d844461c733909ed25c427a019c7a104b00c
Author: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:54:03 +0200

Typo fix

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diff --git a/content/blog/2024-07-16-So-you-want-to-compete-with-FOSS.md b/content/blog/2024-07-16-So-you-want-to-compete-with-FOSS.md @@ -102,17 +102,17 @@ don't think that's possible. This logic is rooted in a deeper notion of ownership over the software, which is both subtle and very important. This is a kind of [auteur] theory of software. -The notion is that the software they build *belongs* to them. They poses a sense -of ownership over the software, which comes with a set of moral and perhaps -legal rights to the software, which, importantly, are withheld from any entity -other than themselves. The "developers" enjoy this special relationship with the -project -- the "developers" being the special class of person entitled to this -sense of ownership and the class to whom the up-and-coming source-available -movements make an appeal, in the sense of "pay the developers" -- and -third-party entities who work on the source code are merely "contributors", -though they apply the same skills and labor to the project as the "developers" -do. The very distinction between "first-party" and "third-party" developers is -contingent on this "auteur" worldview. +The notion is that the software they build *belongs* to them. They possess a +sense of ownership over the software, which comes with a set of moral and +perhaps legal rights to the software, which, importantly, are withheld from any +entity other than themselves. The "developers" enjoy this special relationship +with the project -- the "developers" being the special class of person entitled +to this sense of ownership and the class to whom the up-and-coming +source-available movements make an appeal, in the sense of "pay the developers" +-- and third-party entities who work on the source code are merely +"contributors", though they apply the same skills and labor to the project as +the "developers" do. The very distinction between "first-party" and +"third-party" developers is contingent on this "auteur" worldview. [auteur]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auteur