Jews, Gentiles, and the Open Source Definition
I was read Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews today in the New Testament (Bible) and stumbled across some interesting background, background which resonates today in the open-source community.
Paul wrote his Epistle to the Hebrews shortly after returning to Jerusalem to find many of the Jewish Christians still "zealous of the law" (See Acts 21:20), despite roughly 10 years having passed since the conference at Jerusalem which determined that certain ordinances of the law of Moses (e.g., circumcision) were not necessary for salvation of the gentile Christians. Paul then wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews to try to re-frame the faith of the Jewish Christians away from old ordinances.
Being something of an "open-source Pharisee" myself, it's fascinating to see much the same phenomenon roughly 2000 years later in the software industry. I'll explain.
On the one hand, you have the free software purists (of which I'm increasingly part) who demand strict adherence to The Law (of open source). On the other, you have a growing "gentile" body of open-source converts, some of which don't want to have to live by old-school "ordinances" of open source.
A fair amount of tension exists today between the two camps.
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