How tech went from free love to pay-per-click

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FOSS, AI, blockchain, and the cycle of empty nonsense

developer conference, there were also several people there to promote AI-linked projects and the tech bros' previous favorites – blockchain projects.

Dozens of weird and wonderful OSes and their apps, and the programming languages and complete toolchains they were built with, quietly went extinct. What was left were a few varieties of Unix, and Microsoft Windows. This only works for so long. Software can keep getting bigger and slower only for as long as computers keep getting faster, and the rate of improvement there has fallen off a cliff and shows no sign of recovery.

FOSS hasn't succeeded because it made hard stuff easy. It didn't. It still isn't easy. It succeeded because it made expensive stuff cheap.

 

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