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Heidi Heidi: Which will win, free software or proprietary? esr: In the short term, proprietary will win, but free software will win in the long term. Heidi: But what is the long term except for an endless succession of short terms? esr: [thinks ] esr: [thinks ] esr: That's true, but over the long term, there is time for second order effects to accumulate, and it is because of those second order effects that free software will succeed in the long term. The book she's holding is by Yoshitomo Nara

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