"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999.
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Lamina1 is enough to prove Stephenson is kind of full of shit.
It’s such a joke it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia entry. It’s just a footnote on Stephenson’s.
I’m just gonna call it like I sees it:
I put Stephenson in the same camp as Orson Scott Card.
He had a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas… and that’s about it.
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Which of his amazing books is your “single good book”?
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Probably Snow Crash
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Which is kinda silly anyway, and I love Snow Crash, but it wasn’t even close to his most interesting book.
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Speaker for the Dead is my guess
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That’s the sequel to Ender’s Game. It is good, but it is Orson Scott Card.
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Anathem came to mind for me. Each reply naming a different book is pretty funny.
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Maybe SeveNeveS
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