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This is an incredible essay by one of today's leading techgnostic writers. It's the earliest writing I know of that talks about the commoditization of software

• leoc 19y ago
  The "Halloween documents" (I and II) by Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen were talking about it the previous year: they were written and leaked in 1998. http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/
  • eru 19y ago
    "This page originally continued with an anti-Microsoft jeremiad. On reflection, however, I think I'd prefer to finish by thanking the principal authors, Vinod Valloppillil and Josh Cohen, for authoring such remarkable and effective testimonials to the excellence of Linux and open-source software in general. I suspect that historians may someday regard the Halloween memoranda as your finest hour, and the Internet community certainly owes you a vote of thanks."