LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 3, 2020 8:35 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: LWN's 2020 vision by jcm
Parent article: LWN's 2020 vision

I'm grateful to RMS for his decades of work that helped build the context for free software.

But I've also felt that he's a victim of his own shtick: even if he did care to vary his thought, he's cornered by the ideas he fathered. Like an API that can't evolve.

But there's an even bigger paradox afoot. Software is mechanism; people are policy. We have precisely shag-all control over what the mechanism we produced can do, once they are released. We live in the best of times, and also slow-motion Skynet times.