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Written by Quintus@lemmy.ml on 2024-08-17 at 19:42

"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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Written by Snot Flickerman on 2024-08-17 at 20:28

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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Written by Handles on 2024-08-18 at 13:05

Them again, “a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas” is one book more than most authors, much less internet commenters will ever put out.

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