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towerful@programming.dev āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© agoHow the Linux kernel āmade itā and is still free and open source is - imo - one of the pinnacles of humanity.
Itās inspired so much other software to adopt the same philosophy, and modern humanity/science/society stands on those shoulders.
I think science has missed that boat.
Or that pinnacle was before the tools to support such an open source atmosphere/community were aroundā¦ So not missed the boat, but swam before the boat was built
Kwakigra@beehaw.org āØ4ā© āØmonthsā© ago
There are probably more obstacles to my daydream than Iām aware of. That being said there is nothing static about science. Comparing what weāre doing now to what we were doing a century ago, two centuries ago, and three centuries ago we might as well be comparing completely separate enterprises based on almost completely different fundamentals. Academia has never been as organized and wide-reaching as it is today so it may seem like a monolith, but itās a new monolith which Iām not sure will remain exactly as it is for long (relatively). I think thereās some room for experimentation.