Long Live Closed-Source Software!

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Dec 31, 2007 7:30 AM EDT
Discover; By Jaron Lanier
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Open wisdom-of-crowds software movements have become influential, but they haven’t promoted the kind of radical creativity I love most in computer science. If anything, they’ve been hindrances. Some of the youngest, brightest minds have been trapped in a 1970s intellectual framework because they are hypnotized into accepting old software designs as if they were facts of nature. Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique, shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.

[More "Linux doesn't innovate" FUD, but this one not so badly articulated as the rest. - Sander]

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