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Is It Evil?

From the I Still Don't Get It Department. Why does a leader of the commercial software community write software, the source for whose internals is largely available? What if I modify his software to suit my own purposes and break it? Following the logic of commercial software, wouldn't the software be better if it was in a black box? Is his software non-proprietary? Open source? Evil? Questions questions questions. I have so many questions.

Maybe we all don't fit in boxes.

My name is Steve Ivy and I write about technology, the open web, social software, and general nerdity on monkinetic.com. You should follow me on Twitter or subscribe to this blog if you like what you're reading. I spend my days hacking Movable Type, python, Django, and various other efforts at Wallrazer. This is my personal site.