olepbr reviewed You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
1.0 star
I’m seldom this assertive, but this book is profoundly dumb. There are some tiny slivers of sense floating around, but they’re overshadowed completely by Lanier’s bro-y, imprecise prose. The way he conflates open-source and piracy is especially infuriating. Furthermore, he just… says things? Proprietary software is inherently better than open-source because… checks notes Linus Torvalds didn’t invent the iPhone?