It is inevitable that an open source system will take over social media, said Bill Ottman, co-founder and CEO of the Minds social media network. Minds is a free, open source, crowdfunded, and encrypted social networking platform.
Contrary to popular belief, open source media apps can be secured by licenses: they are resilient and censorship-resistant, Ottman argued.
“It used to be that all software was just free, and software licenses didn’t even really exist,” Ottman told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program in a recent interview.
“It was just that the academics were all sharing software,” Ottman said. “Then, this whole proprietary software, intellectual property mode of operating came into play with Windows, and everything started getting locked down.”…