I'm not surprised that there's still some VB6 apps doing important work out there. Just as I'm not surprised to see features added to ancient RPG programs or web services being created to wrap a bunch of FoxPro modules. Old doesn't mean bad; if it has worked until now, why throw it away.
In 10 years those apps will probably still run, but the countless NodeJs packages and ruby gems and whatnot that are currently hosted on github will be gone.
I will like to amend that in stating that there will probably be some NodeJS packages and Ruby gems that will be running important pieces of software 10 years from now. Like there was countless VB6 software 10 years back.
Early AIs will probably be alien entities, furthermore there is no evidence stating that said alien AIs would want to hurt humanity. And no evidence at all stating that said AIs can actually bootstrap themselves into super intelligence.
Bug-Fixing before release/update of any software is always a good idea, be it open source or in properitery software. So I am glad that Linus decided to wait to fix the update before pushing it out.
Okay now, what should we do about it? All this complaining, all this saying that we can't beat back the system and the corporations, it is in essence us brushing our hands off for the responsibility for actually changing things. I believe that the only way that we can change things is to go ahead and build brand new hardware, brand new software that instead of taking control away from the user instead bring the control back to the user. And it will only happen if we build the hardware and the software. Otherwise what your prediction says will happen and the Open Source Movement will die. And we will only have ourselves to blame.
To tell you all the truth I wish that I was born earlier so that I can experience the things that everyone on this comment section experienced. However I know that there are things that I am experiencing that I wouldn't experienced in the 80s. Like the opportunity to get a boyfriend or to have much greater computing power at my fingertips allowing me to write much more complex programs that only a 80s mainframe can run.
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I'm not surprised that there's still some VB6 apps doing important work out there. Just as I'm not surprised to see features added to ancient RPG programs or web services being created to wrap a bunch of FoxPro modules. Old doesn't mean bad; if it has worked until now, why throw it away.
In 10 years those apps will probably still run, but the countless NodeJs packages and ruby gems and whatnot that are currently hosted on github will be gone.
I will like to amend that in stating that there will probably be some NodeJS packages and Ruby gems that will be running important pieces of software 10 years from now. Like there was countless VB6 software 10 years back.
Early AIs will probably be alien entities, furthermore there is no evidence stating that said alien AIs would want to hurt humanity. And no evidence at all stating that said AIs can actually bootstrap themselves into super intelligence.
Bug-Fixing before release/update of any software is always a good idea, be it open source or in properitery software. So I am glad that Linus decided to wait to fix the update before pushing it out.
Okay now, what should we do about it? All this complaining, all this saying that we can't beat back the system and the corporations, it is in essence us brushing our hands off for the responsibility for actually changing things. I believe that the only way that we can change things is to go ahead and build brand new hardware, brand new software that instead of taking control away from the user instead bring the control back to the user. And it will only happen if we build the hardware and the software. Otherwise what your prediction says will happen and the Open Source Movement will die. And we will only have ourselves to blame.
To tell you all the truth I wish that I was born earlier so that I can experience the things that everyone on this comment section experienced. However I know that there are things that I am experiencing that I wouldn't experienced in the 80s. Like the opportunity to get a boyfriend or to have much greater computing power at my fingertips allowing me to write much more complex programs that only a 80s mainframe can run.