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Don't forget that, back then, systems were small enough to be understood easily on your own. Nowadays, that's not really the case anymore. Besides, we kind of f
by th0br0 12y ago
Don't forget that, back then, systems were small enough to be understood easily on your own. Nowadays, that's not really the case anymore.
Besides, we kind of find ourselves in a situation where most people have simply accepted being beholden to closed source software providers.
- wolfgke 12y ago> Don't forget that, back then, systems were small enough to be understood easily on your own. Even in the 90s, Windows (e.g. 9x family or NT family) was too complicated to be easily understandable on your own. Nevertheless, the people (IMHO rightly) complained about undocumented, private APIs in Windows.