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Long Live Closed-Source Software?

Posted by Zonk on from the i-am-something-of-a-fan-of-closed-source-games dept.

EvilRyry writes "In an article for Discover Magazine, Jaron Lanier writes about his belief that open source produces nothing interesting because of a hide-bound mentality. '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.'"

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  1. One word rebuttel to TFA by rs79 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apache.

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  2. Re:Apache by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 5, Informative
    I wonder if he uploaded his shit article on an apache server.

    curl -i 'http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/long-live-closed-source-software/' | head -2

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Server: Zope/(Zope 2.9.6-final, python 2.4.0, linux2) ZServer/1.1 Plone/2.5.2