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Open Source Beyond the Market

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Computer Science vs Soft Development

Computer science is still seen as primarily the discipline we use when it comes to creating softor. This may be true of much of western society in general, but i think it afflicts softer practitioners in particular because of our founding roots in rationality and physics. One of the ways that the focus on computer science leads us astray is with the notion of objective truths. Take static versus dynamic typing as just one example. When i got started in the late nineties, this was a hot topic, fiercely contested. Now 20 years later, it's a still a hot topic and fiercely contested. Just witness the excitement about typescrift, or the englings of a movement around the same for ruby

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