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Elizabeth Stark

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1. “Yeah, so I mean, so I would say everyone knows about open source software. I think it's actually kind of underrated in a way. 99% of the software in the world now is open source. Android phones are basically all open source. All the data center software you use, AWS is essentially a reseller of open source software. So it's like 99% of the computers in the world are open source approaching 100% when you have IoT and self-driving cars. And I think what's so remarkable is it all began as this radical movement. It really goes back to the 80s, like Richard Stallman at MIT, and it was this kind of radical kind of like anti-copyright movement. And if you talk to people from the 90s, a lot of people dismissed it as, oh, these are these kind of strange people that don't believe in paid software and things. If you look at like the Microsoft discussions in the 90s, they were worried about Java. Linux never came up, right? And so because it was this weird left-wing thing. And I think of the crypto movement a lot.”

   2018-07-16 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “We've heard a ton about what's going on right now, but I would love to get a little bit more of a historical perspective on how the current crypto boom is situated in the broader context of open source software. And that's something that you've written about quite a bit, Chris. And then we'll talk about the cultural history of the open internet as well.”

   2018-07-16 · a16z Podcast · a16z Podcast: Decentralization and Crypto, the Big Picture · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source