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"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999. (archive.org)

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Lamina1 is enough to prove Stephenson is kind of full of shit.

It's such a joke it doesn't even have its own Wikipedia entry. It's just a footnote on Stephenson's.

I'm just gonna call it like I sees it:

I put Stephenson in the same camp as Orson Scott Card.

He had a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas... and that's about it. People need money to stay alive, and can always be swayed by it.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

Which of his amazing books is the "single good book" you're referring to?

[–] cfi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably Snow Crash

[–] zod000@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Which is kinda silly anyway, and I love Snow Crash, but it wasn't even close to his most interesting book.

[–] fysihcyst@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Anathem came to mind for me. Each reply naming a different book is pretty funny.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe SeveNeveS

[–] dwemthy@lemdro.id 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Speaker for the Dead is my guess

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

That's the sequel to Ender's Game. It is good, but it is Orson Scott Card.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 12 points 2 months ago

That's not fair. Multiple books of his books are award winning. Even if you only like one, the critics rate him. Other writers, rate him.

[–] halm@leminal.space 8 points 2 months ago

Them again, "a single book with some really brilliant and thoughtful ideas" is one book more than most authors, much less internet commenters will ever put out.

[–] araneae@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hang on a second. Orson Scott Card is a homophobic motherfuck. What'd NS do that is so bad?

[–] dwemthy@lemdro.id 1 points 2 months ago

He's into NFTs, if there's something else idk about it