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I don't even think there's any paradox. Software is much more ubiquitous than before, much more powerful, and takes much more resource to develop. Obviously,

by yongjik 11y ago

I don't even think there's any paradox. Software is much more ubiquitous than before, much more powerful, and takes much more resource to develop. Obviously, a lot of stuff that were previously held by wires and switches are going to use software, and since people are selling these stuff, a lot of this stuff will be proprietary. An average user has zero reason to "avoid proprietary software while completing their necessary work on a computer." They are too busy trying to do their necessary work.

dagw 11y ago
and takes much more resource to develop This is I do not believe at all. Programming is today is so much more trivial than it was even just 10 years ago it's not even funny. I mean just recently I wrote a little app the allowed people to remotely connect to a server and not only interactively view 3d data stored on that server, but change the shading of the model depending on what factors they where interested in and to click on the models and based on the properties of the triangle they clicked query a database to get more information. A few years ago that would have taken a team of experts month to get up and running. Today I could do it by myself, in a few days, including the time it took for me to get up to speed on webgl/three.js, which I had never used before.