>If Alan Kay really wants to see the worlds next ideas birthed into existence, why isn't he at the forefront of free and open source? He was, he created Smallt

>If Alan Kay really wants to see the worlds next ideas birthed into existence, why isn't he at the forefront of free and open source? He was, he created Smalltalk, released the source code and made it as open as it can be. You can see the source of everything. The only problem was very few people were interested on that. Most children were interested in just one thing: games(the best quality they could get). And adults wanted to run professional programs in their inexpensive machines. He just could not understand why people choose other languages, like C, that were anathema for him, but let people extract all the juice of their cheap computers in order to create and play games and also serious programs that previously only run on mainframes. As an academic with early access to "hundreds of thousand dollars per machine"(and not accounting for inflation), he was too isolated from the rest of the world to understand what happened later.