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'Good enough' is largely a political problem. I don't think the FSF would have gone into politics if it were possible to rewrite the world in the style of Emacs
by sprout 16y ago
'Good enough' is largely a political problem. I don't think the FSF would have gone into politics if it were possible to rewrite the world in the style of Emacs. That's a political goal, that's not a technical one.
I think we're sort of in a pre-literate society in a lot of ways, and people (or whatever) will look back on this century as sort of like the beginnings of language. And like natural language, I think computer languages and their use are going to eventually have much more interesting political implications. Especially once the concept of IP dies and we start looking at code as a conversation.
- kiba 16y agoThat's a different use of the term politics you got there. I think FSF failed was due more to development methodology rather than the feasibility of the goal in itself. Take a look at emacs. Its release cycle is very long in between, survives forks, and generally being unpalatable to new users imitated by its keyboard configuration. It still lives. It still thrive. But it doesn't thrive as much as it should.