Hate to break it to you people, but rms was always right- the #1 reason why programming sucks is that everyone wants complete control over all of the bullshit they threw together and thought they could sell.
Imagine an environment like a lisp machine, where all the code you run is open and available for you to inspect and edit.
Imagine a vast indexed, cross-referenced, and mass-moderated collection of algorithm implementations and code snippets for every kind of project that's ever been worked on, at your fingertips.
Discussing how we might want slightly better ways to write and view the code we have written is ignoring the elephant problem- that everything you write has probably been written cleaner and more efficiently several times before.
If you don't think that's fucked up, think about this:
The only reason to lock down your code is an economic one, despite that all the code being made freely usable would massively increase the total economic value of the software ecosystem.
Locking down my code for economic reasons has worked pretty well for me. It's allowed me to have a pretty good lifestyle running my business for the last fifteen years and kept my customers happy because they know I have a financial incentive to keep maintaining my products.
Imagine an environment like a lisp machine, where all the code you run is open and available for you to inspect and edit. Imagine a vast indexed, cross-referenced, and mass-moderated collection of algorithm implementations and code snippets for every kind of project that's ever been worked on, at your fingertips.
Discussing how we might want slightly better ways to write and view the code we have written is ignoring the elephant problem- that everything you write has probably been written cleaner and more efficiently several times before.
If you don't think that's fucked up, think about this: The only reason to lock down your code is an economic one, despite that all the code being made freely usable would massively increase the total economic value of the software ecosystem.