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> I've come to realize that open source is the only type of software worth investing into. No matter how great a commercial piece of software might be, sooner o
by gwern 6y ago
> I've come to realize that open source is the only type of software worth investing into. No matter how great a commercial piece of software might be, sooner or later it's going to either disappear or change in a way that doesn't suit you.
Otherwise known as Pilgrim's law:
"In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end."
- awakeasleep 6y agoThe utility one derives from non-Free software is profit the vendor has not yet captured?
- gwern 6y agoAnd their incentive is to capture as much of it as possible no matter how large the deadweight losses are; Free Software is a positive-sum game, and, unfortunately, proprietary software increasingly tends towards negative-sum games.