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It would be easier to agree with you if there were no examples of closed source software, or even non-software ideas (such as libraries), spreading and having h
by sorrythanks 2y ago
It would be easier to agree with you if there were no examples of closed source software, or even non-software ideas (such as libraries), spreading and having huge impact.
Bret is also in no rush here, the plan has taken a decade so far and has milestones ahead of it for a decade more.
- rtkwe 2y agoNot trying to say it's inevitable but it's way riskier. There's usually a company behind that selling the software making money to continue the process. Bret has a non-profit and now no physical location to evangelize from. Libraries are an exact counter example to this actually, first the idea doesn't require software and hardware, and second the concept is all there really is to it. Making a DynamicLand clone is clearly possible without access to the code but you have to do a lot of blind reverse engineering working backwards from the implementation. Maybe this is also a little frustration that it's been 10 or so years and there's not actually much new news, it looks better but I'm seemingly further than ever from being able to experiment with it.