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Oxide and Friends Twitter Space: October 4th, 2021

Economics and Open Source

We’ve been holding a Twitter Space weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour. Even though it’s not (yet?) a feature of Twitter Spaces, we have been recording them all; here is the recording for our Twitter Space for October 4th, 2021.

In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers on October 4th included Edwin Peer, James Todd, Peter Corless, Matt Campbell, jasonbking, Simeon Miteff, Josh Clulow, Ian, Joe Thompson, Dan Cross, Tom Lyon, Tim Burnham, and vint serp. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• Mark Jones Lorenzo (2017) Endless Loop: The History of the BASIC Programming Language book
  • John Kemeny wiki
• [@3:11](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=191) Tim’s excellent tweet
  • William Gibson wiki
  • John Browne (1996) The Bug Count Also Rises short story
• [@5:38](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=338) Growing up with BASIC
• [@8:03](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=483) Braille ’n Speak PDA (intro video), BASIC programming
• TI-BASIC language
• [@10:39](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=639) Speaking program reading off system calls in real time 
  • snoop could output to /dev/audio
• [@13:39](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=819) Joel Spolsky (2002) Strategy Letter V blog
  • Bryan’s (2004) The Economics of Software blog
  • Software “maintenance”
• [@20:02](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=1202) Cathedral and the Bazaar, wiki
  • “Forkophilic” development model and the Alan Cox -ac Linux tree
• [@26:07](https://youtu.be/JDd8xGSP9DA?t=1567) Open source as something in the commercial best interest of a business 
  • SCO v IBM wiki
  • Halloween documents wiki
  • Steve Ballmer’s “Linux is a cancer” quote in the Chicago Sun-Times
  • OpenOffice.org wiki (open sourced from StarOffice)
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