Books on FOSS (was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Purer Than Thou)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 24 10:04:54 PST 2007


On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:48 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:


> It all seems to be a vast and mysterious black box.

Like I keep saying, I bet 95% of users want a mysterious black box - one that's easy to operate and doesn't break much. I don't accept that wanting to know what goes on inside your computer or the pipes of the interweb is at all analogous to wanting to understand how your society works. My networked computer helps me understand how society works, but that doesn't mean I want to know what's going on under this keyboard.

Doug



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