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Story: What science fiction technology should be open source?Total Replies: 9
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jdixon

Mar 18, 2016
9:49 PM EDT 		Would you trust disassembling and reassembling your molecular structure to closed source software?
penguinist

Mar 18, 2016
11:38 PM EDT 		Would you trust your life to a pacemaker with closed proprietary firmware?

(not really under the category of science fiction)
jdixon

Mar 19, 2016
2:17 AM EDT 		> Would you trust your life to a pacemaker with closed proprietary firmware?

Not if I had any choice in the matter, but is the government going to give me a choice?
JaseP

Mar 19, 2016
3:54 AM EDT 		A) I wouldn't trust my molecules being disassembled, period,... Since re-assembly violates the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and even if it didn't would take upwards of a million plus years to complete it's operations...

B) If it were possible, I certainly wouldn't want the software to be proprietary.
maxxedout

Mar 19, 2016
9:53 AM EDT 		That would give a whole new meaning to "The Blue Screen of Death"!
notbob

Mar 19, 2016
5:42 PM EDT 		You go first. ;)
penguinist

Mar 19, 2016
6:15 PM EDT 		Dang it Jim, I'm not gonna have _my_ molecules scattered across the universe!
BernardSwiss

Mar 19, 2016
9:09 PM EDT 		> Dang it Jim, I'm not gonna have _my_ molecules scattered across the universe!

Don't worry about it -- this is the improved version. It's still under warranty!

Besides... Tech Support is pretty good about applying any patches, promptly.

gus3

Mar 21, 2016
2:14 PM EDT 		Actually, Schroedinger's Equation says your waveform is already scattered.

And Murphy's Law says there's nothing you can do about it.
NoDough

Mar 21, 2016
5:28 PM EDT
gus3 wrote:Actually, Schroedinger's Equation says your waveform is already scattered.

And Murphy's Law says there's nothing you can do about it.


And which do we most often see applied?

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