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The corporations embraced open source at least a decade ago. Android is built on open source. Windows began embracing it since Windows 8, which marks the fall of Windows as a desktop OS and the beginning of Windows as spyware. Google and Facebook have used and manipulated open source from their beginning.

The main argument for open source is code reuse, but code reuse is a false idol. We need code diversity, just like we need diversity in genetics. We need a resilient and redundant technological ecosystem, not a fragile one, and a single code base is ultimate fragility.

The ultimate result of code reuse applied to genetics is that humans become clones. Then we realize that we don't need so many clones, and radically reduce the number of humans. Code reuse is, basically, death of all alternatives.

2 years ago
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The corporations embraced open source at least a decade ago. Android is built on open source. Windows began embracing it since Windows 8, which marks the fall of Windows as a desktop OS and the beginning of Windows as spyware. Google and Facebook have used and manipulated open source from their beginning.

The main argument for open source is code reuse, but code reuse is a false idol. We need code diversity, just like we need diversity in genetics. We need a resilient and redundant technological ecosystem, not a fragile one, and a single code base is ultimate fragility.

The ultimate result of code reuse applied to genetics is that humans become clones. Then we realize that we don't need so many clones, and radically reduce the number of humans. Code reuse is death, basically. It is the death of all alternatives.

2 years ago
1 score