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Pretty sad to see where things are going. Computing started with everything being proprietary, then from the 80s on you saw wide open systems and standards deve
by maxxxxx 8y ago
Pretty sad to see where things are going. Computing started with everything being proprietary, then from the 80s on you saw wide open systems and standards developed. And I think standards are what enabled the rapid growth of the industry and the internet. And now the big players are trying to revert and make everything proprietary again. No standard protocols, hardware that barely can be opened or repaired.
- r00fus 8y agoThink of patents unrestrained (thanks to some really bad jurisprudence in the 90s and beyond) as the antithesis of open standards.