Mullenweg predicts proprietary software utility will approach zero within 100 years
Matt Mullenweg · Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he’s taking a stand · Mar 2, 2025 · at 27:56
Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, discusses the long-term societal impact of open-source software compared to proprietary operating systems.
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“And if you fast forward like 50 or a hundred years, I do believe that the utility of proprietary software eventually approaches zero. So like when we're sending people to Mars, the operating system of the rockets and the devices and everything like that is not going to be built on the Windows NT kernel. As amazing feat of engineering that like that proprietary kernel is, it's gonna be built on an open source kernel, you know, Linux or BSD or something like that.”
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