DConf 2013 Closing Keynote: Quo Vadis by Andrei Alexandrescu

[Leandro Lucarella]

Walter Bright, el 29 de June a las 01:37 me escribiste:
> The bottom line was the open source movement was not a very
> significant force in the 1980's when C++ gained traction. Open
> source really exploded around 2000, along with the internet. I
> wonder if open source perhaps needed the internet in order to be
> viable.

Yes, I think that's the whole point, without Internet open source was
extremely niche, without resources to distribute it, it was almost
impossible to take off, and almost impossible to collaborate, which is
the big different open source have vs traditional commercial software.

Even when extremely interesting, I think the ZTC++ history before open
source existed or was really viable (the free software movement started
in 1983, the FSF was founded in 1985 and the open source definition was
made in 1998) is irrelevant in terms to analyze if right now it would be
valuable to make the reference compiler partly closed.

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