Help - Background - Remarks - What should happen with Squeak
An interesting side effect of Squeak's Central ceasing to function somewhere in 2001 is that finally Squeak is open source fully in the public domain - by which I mean that in fact it is owned by no commercial entity at all, that it is free for every one, and that it can be developed by anyone who is willing to invest time and has the requisite type of mind.
This makes Squeak more like a natural language or like ordinary mathematics and less like commercially owned programs, and this is how it should be: The tools of civilization should be developed by the public, if this is possible at all, and the tools of civilization that are programming environments should be developed as open source projects.