The case for malleable software

Key Takeaways

Malleable software is the idea that software works closer to the interest of the people that use it than the interest of the corporation that makes it. Like I don't want to use software that is specifically just designed by the ivory tower in Cupertino. Imagine you lived in an environment where you do not get to rearrange your living room and the kitchen has to be exactly set up the way that someone else decided. We would not take that, right? But that is kind of the world that we have in software right now. Where we have this world of apps and apps are like this theory every layer is glued together of like the user interface, the data ownership, and so on. And the moment you're like, "Okay, this is a really great app, but I just want to change a little bit." That is usually not possible. And so to me it just comes back down to do you have ownership over your computing life? And I think increasingly we don't.