On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 03:11:39PM +0100, Giancarlo Livraghi wrote: > The fact, as I understand it, is that unix has existed for forty years, > linux for twenty, but they were "for the experts". Now it's easy for > everybody. And that is a *big* change. Strangely enough, nobody > (including penguin advocates) seems to have noticed how important this > can be.
I must admit I missed the big discontinuity in FLOSS usability. If anything interesting has happened recently it's the critical mass (could be a flash in the pan, though) achieved in open fabrication, particularly self-assistive rapid prototyping fabbing. People have been waiting for this for decades, but now we could see it starting to really happening.
