When I was a broke college student, I cared a lot more about open source. Now that I have more resources, more experience, less time, and a personal interest in

When I was a broke college student, I cared a lot more about open source. Now that I have more resources, more experience, less time, and a personal interest in getting paid for software, I have stronger feelings about the interface. Whether or not the box is black isn't really on my mind these days. I rarely have the skill or time to fix them when they break, or don't do what I want. I'd rather the box be easier to swap out or build around when requirements change. I'd rather have a richer ecosystem of blacker boxes, than a bunch of broken transparent boxes laying around. A problem, of course, is that businesses don't want their boxes to be interchangable. Transparent boxes do tend to help.