mmhmm, I remember writing that. What was more in my head with that was privacy and freedom vs cloud computing rather than closed/open ("open source has won", "not in the ways I care about it hasn't"); I lament the loss of the late 90s and the enthusiasm for desktop voice recognition, particularly, and how that's all gone cloud based and will probably never come back leaving the only options as "give your data to this company or that company".
And recently Microsoft has predicted they can extract 8+ billion dollars from years of free work of Git developers (GitHub) and other open projects, yet open source advocates are trying to spin this as some kind of win for open source and a loss for Microsoft.
I agree lived reality is more complex, but if you can start from a moralizing ideology you agree with, that can make decisions for you to simplify it. But then you risk living with a Leemote Yeelong laptop and using the web over plain text email.
And recently Microsoft has predicted they can extract 8+ billion dollars from years of free work of Git developers (GitHub) and other open projects, yet open source advocates are trying to spin this as some kind of win for open source and a loss for Microsoft.
I agree lived reality is more complex, but if you can start from a moralizing ideology you agree with, that can make decisions for you to simplify it. But then you risk living with a Leemote Yeelong laptop and using the web over plain text email.