> Openness for me is first and foremost ideological, not practical, and certainly not just about the results.
The problem is openness took off in software because it's very practical for some kind of developments, and IMHO, this tremendous success wrongly suggests that it could be applied elsewhere. I'll back that statement by pointing out that very little open software had organic success among consumers (products like firefox and VLC), other are either backed by big tech companies (android, Java), many times with the open source software having a closed development process.
The problem is openness took off in software because it's very practical for some kind of developments, and IMHO, this tremendous success wrongly suggests that it could be applied elsewhere. I'll back that statement by pointing out that very little open software had organic success among consumers (products like firefox and VLC), other are either backed by big tech companies (android, Java), many times with the open source software having a closed development process.