« prev · plain text · next » 1999 · Erik Naggum comp.lang.lisp archive search · random Subject: source access vs dynamism From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/08/23 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: < 3144404199547949@naggum.no > once upon a time, I was very much opposed to Free Software on a variety of political grounds. then I thought that it could do a lot of good, partially motivated by seeing a lot of problems that came with lack of access to source code. these days, I largely think both Free Software and Open Source are very serious mistakes, because they don't solve the core problems, they make them much, much worse. suppose one operating system (or language) lets you open an already open file by calling OPEN or whatever on the open stream. since this is clearly beneficial to anyone who can do it, let's assume people start to do it an...