A lot of this interview feels like bullshit to me. Erm, on the interviewee not the interviewer. They say that a modern replica of bar code could never be made

A lot of this interview feels like bullshit to me. Erm, on the interviewee not the interviewer. They say that a modern replica of bar code could never be made today. But we are full tilt into the open source movement with Linux, Chrome, Docker, PHP, Apache, Nginx, Makefiles and more all underpinning modern code. Even QR codes are basically open source. ------------ Open standards have won the market today in practice. If a modern barcode re-competition were to exist, I'd bet on an Open Source one over any proprietary solution. There seems to be a lot of understanding of the barcodes history here. But also a lot of cynicism that seems completely unwarranted.