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The modelling of open source as loss leader is spot on, and should really give pause to anyone considering a computer science major. As a broke college student
by scombridae 4y ago
The modelling of open source as loss leader is spot on, and should really
give pause to anyone considering a computer science major.
As a broke college student, I revelled in free-as-in-beer Linux, emacs,
R, and LaTeX. Now that I'm on the other side, I can't help but regret
Torvalds and Stallman giving away the farm (yes, I'm inclined to take
not give). As much as we hated Microsoft in the 90s, it was an economy
in which a coder's skill translated directly into shrink-wrapped
profits. Now we're all coding in service to high-latency cloud crap and
selling customer data.
- pythonaut_16 4y agoThis has nothing to do with Computer Science as a major or as a field.
- scombridae 4y agoA particular field owes its popularity largely to its financial appeal. In the past the most popular majors were biology (pre-med) and economics (pre-business). Today it is computer science.