Jaron Lanier is against online communities to the point of speaking against Wikipedia and the Open source movement.
Should have mentioned the first time — Jaron is critical of, but not against, Wikipedia or open source.
I’ve been a Wikipedia editor since 2007, and admit that most of his criticisms are valid. Anyone that has, say, over 1000 edits on Wikipedia either knows that it sucks to be a Wikipedia editor or hides how much it sucks because they’re hoping to be an admin at some point and don’t complain about it outside their own heads… in which case they don’t really add new content to articles, they argue about content in articles and modify what other people have already contributed.
He points on open source don’t seem to be any different than what people said in Revolution OS In like 2001–open source and proprietary software can co-exist. e.g. Bruce Perens said his only difference with Richard Stallman was the thought “that free software and non-free software should coexist.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vW62KqKJ5A#t=49m39s
Should have mentioned the first time — Jaron is critical of, but not against, Wikipedia or open source.
I’ve been a Wikipedia editor since 2007, and admit that most of his criticisms are valid. Anyone that has, say, over 1000 edits on Wikipedia either knows that it sucks to be a Wikipedia editor or hides how much it sucks because they’re hoping to be an admin at some point and don’t complain about it outside their own heads… in which case they don’t really add new content to articles, they argue about content in articles and modify what other people have already contributed.
He points on open source don’t seem to be any different than what people said in Revolution OS In like 2001–open source and proprietary software can co-exist. e.g. Bruce Perens said his only difference with Richard Stallman was the thought “that free software and non-free software should coexist.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vW62KqKJ5A#t=49m39s