open source

“I kind of tend to compare crypto, blockchain, whatever you want to call it, a lot with open source, which had an all of that sort of millenarian fantasy, and also was very important, like half of which didn't happen, but it is very important. And, you know, th…”

“So Linux failed completely. As a consumer product, open source failed completely at creating consumer products.”

“Open source was hugely important in creating technology infrastructure and plumbing of every kind. And it was a much better organizational model for writing that software. It was not a great organizational model for writing end user software for consumers.”

“And crypto is basically sort of SaaS meets open source. So it's all sort of running publicly in the cloud. And so you can make different applications with this. You can do these incentive structures and open governance structures and portability that you can't…”

“With open source, you could download the code and look at it, but you couldn't see it running inside Google. Whereas with a blockchain computer, you can see the code running and all the rules and all the transactions as they happen.”

“The open source fallacy should also give people a lot of caution, which is, The difference between what technologies think matters and what users would like and the problems that users have. And, you know, I don't have access to the source code of my phone is …”

“Well, so I was looking at, I looked at Metaverse, sorry, at Fediverse, and saw, this looks like an open source claim of Twitter, and open source claims of commercial products never work. It's the only people who use them are people who care that it's open sour…”