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Never stop cheering for open source . If you were a human 3000 years ago ,you wouldn't want fire to be controlled by two chiefs.
by MaxPock 3mo ago
Never stop cheering for open source .
If you were a human 3000 years ago ,you wouldn't want fire to be controlled by two chiefs.
- subarctic 3mo agoActually i bet there were people back then who were worried about the wrong people getting access to fire for various reasons
- skybrian 3mo agoI don't know, maybe everyone shouldn't have a magic lamp that they can use to wish for whatever they want? Seems like it depends on what you can wish for?
- cadamsdotcom 3mo agoThe analogy doesn’t work because when fire was invented the infrastructure to spread its knowledge everywhere wasn’t built yet. Also it was always going to be rediscovered on its own: the possibility of igniting a fire from sparks is learnable by watching lightning strike a tree. And once someone sees that - or sees someone else make fire - they can copy it, no language needed.