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by missbit 3239 days ago
He is obviously brilliant. The interviewer wants to steer him into being a crazy nut corner. Pepsi vs. Coke.

I realize historically there was only low level software that existed. These days we've got much higher level services which really could benefit from free software.

He hits on these ideas. Maybe he'd be open to working on these sorts of things.

Services have gotten to the level where they are taking a piece of people's livelihoods. Uber & Airbnb takes 20-30%. why?

Amazon is a system of warehousing & distribution... could something like that be run in a distributed / cooperative way which provides as much opportunity to 3rd party retailers as it does Amazon? A level playing field.

These are the sorts of things that the free software movement could move towards now.

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> The interviewer wants to steer him into being a crazy nut corner. Pepsi vs. Coke.

Absolutely wrong. The interviewer even said at one point "The things you're describing I believe should be of a concern to many more people than they are." You're totally off.