[-empyre-] seeing yourself a prototype - the limits of open source

[adrian at cnmat.berkeley.edu]

The software might be free and the prototype might be free, but you, the
creator are not.
You are bound in a panopticon where anonymous others can observe and
scrutinize your creative output. How can you not mediate your behavior
aware of this scrutiny? Is the prototype a tentative confirmation of
conformity that announces a productivity that funds the panoptican?