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There was actually a movie about this very thing. Miguel De Icaza had a cameo. The villain company was a thinly veiled replica of Microsoft, and the CEO looke

There was actually a movie about this very thing. Miguel De Icaza had a cameo. The villain company was a thinly veiled replica of Microsoft, and the CEO looked like Bill Gates. ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ ) In another thread a few weeks ago about code signing, I mentioned we should just hand Apple Source code for the apps it distributes in the store, to make review more thorough and reliable. Replies objected "Why would you give your source code to another company?" ........ and github is still a thing? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794243 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794243)

Fnoord 5y ago
Some of the features in that movie would work nowadays, such as paintings detecting a visitor and changing based on the visitor or their mood or sound input (don't remember exactly). Wasn't there also something with satellites? Also, ironic De Icaza ended up working for... the company he wanted to work for all along, ...Microsoft. Though Friedman left Microsoft (or at least stepped down as GitHub CEO). De Icaza was also featured in the Finnish movie The Code [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_(2001_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Code_(2001_film)