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Long Live Closed-Source Software! | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine

by karlcow

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.

geekocracry et autres. Le monde de l'open source et son absolutisme. J'aime beaucoup le

Even though the open-source movement has a stinging countercultural rhetoric, it has in practice been a conservative force.

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So science as it is already practiced is open, but in a punctuated way, not a continuous way. The interval of nonopenness—the time before publication—functions like the walls of a cell. It allows a complicated stream of elements to be defined well enough to be explored, tested, and then improved.

Et ceci que les gens devraient apprendre. Les gens confondent souvent ouverture et traçabilité. Un système très ouvert est souvent un système fasciste. Ce qui est important c'est de pouvoir remonter à une source quand il y en a besoin mais pas dans les circonstances normales de la vie.

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