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>> Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Proprietary software is the ene
by RRWagner 6y ago
>> Proprietary software rejects their thirst for knowledge: it says, “The knowledge you want is a secret—learning is forbidden!” Proprietary software is the enemy of the spirit of education, so it should not be tolerated in a school, except as an object for reverse engineering.
Myself, as the creator of the most widely-used K-12+ software of the 90s and early 2000s, HyperStudio, can say that nothing in that statement is true about the software that I created then, before, nor afterwards.
- Hackbraten 6y agoGood point, and I appreciate your outstanding work and respect the fact that developers have to eat, too. One could still make a point over whether learning how your product works internally is kind of a secret when the child can’t look at the source code, can’t tinker with it to add features and can’t share that knowledge with others.