Long Live Closed-Source Software?

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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Re:One word rebuttel to TFA

[ajs318]

Is he the one that had the idea something like: in English we put the adjective before the noun and we put the given name before the family name. So when we hear a family name (such as "Lakoff") alone we unconsciously associate a given name with it (such as "George"); and if we hear an adjective-noun phrase enough times we tend unconsciously to associate that adjective with that noun even if the noun is used on its own. So if you keep talking about "binge drinking" and "illegal immigrants" for example, and soon people will come to see any drinking as binge-drinking and any immigrant as an illegal immigrant, and politicians have been doing this for years just to screw us over?

Purchased Software that has no Source Included

[hackus]

One of my wishes for this New Year:

Everyone who sells software and you do not include the source, I hope you rot in red ink.

-Hack