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Their wordsI think perhaps to some extent this has been a weakness of Linux because someone can look at that and go like oh that's kind of the same as what I'm already using. Why would I go through all the trouble to end up with something that's very similar?
Their wordsSo, it shouldn't really startle me or surprise me that Linux is able to create a not just competitive but superior desktop experience to something like the Mac in a whole host of areas. Not in all of them.
Their wordsIf that fully vertically integrated system suddenly is run by people with not quite as much taste as Steve Jobs with not quite as in tune sensibilities about everything from marketing to the vision of computing but instead by a logistics guy.
Their wordsyou can see like we're about two little bunny hops away from having a computer that's so locked down that I don't get to run the software of my own choice.
Their wordsAnd if there's a one thread that goes through my entire career, it's just an absolute loathing of asking anyone for permission about anything.
Their wordsLike I really dislike what happened when they took this unfortunate turn into services and realized that that was the easiest money they could they could ever make is just take a cut of other people's business. That has a corrupting force I think.
Their wordswhen you've been doing something for 20 years, you should just try to do the opposite just for a moment, just for a while to see if those ideas and those preferences you had that were cemented over 20 years, are they still valid?
Our reading
Ruby is probably his forever language, and he still tries new languages to widen the aperture.
Their wordseven though I love Ruby and I think Ruby probably is my forever language, I continue to hop into new languages and get a taste for them and try them.
Their wordsI I'm really not on board with this idea that even prominent programmers and technologists are like, "Oh, I hate computers." I think it's fake. I think you're lying.