Submission + - Closed-Source Makes More Creative Products (discovermagazine.com)
audiovideodisco writes: "Jaron Lanier says there's a reason that the iPhone came from the most closed software-development shop on Earth: Working in a closed system allows creative ideas to ferment and grow before they're exposed to the outside world. It's the same reason biological cells keep their genomes encapsulated. 'The open-source software community is simply too turbulent to focus its tests and maintain its criteria over an extended duration, and that is a prerequisite to evolving highly original things... Linux is a superbly polished copy of an antique, shinier than the original, perhaps, but still defined by it.'"