The problem with opensource

The largest roadblock preventing OSS from becoming ubiquitous is not in the philosophy (not at all, fantastic philosophy) but rather in the medium. Modern, decent programming languages are simply too complex for Joe Average, reducing the contribution base for OSS down to a minority of proficient coders and crippling one of opensource's main selling points. For OSS to achieve its ideal, we need to develop simpler, more intuitive, more accessible, yet equally powerful forms of coding, such that any reasonable person using a piece of software is not limited in their ability to patch or modify it in any significant way. This is, obviously, not possible with the current state of computer science. We must overthrow tradition and embrace the future. WE MUST RISE UP AND FIGHT FOR OUR IDEAL. VIVA LA REVOLUCION 4CHAN.

In the Good Old Days, I could go:

10 HGR2
20 FOR I = 1 TO 191: HPLOT 0,0 to I,I: NEXT

With the exception of some 'nice' BASIC interpreters you can find today (METAL on Macs, for example) there's no way an 'average' (i.e: someone who isn't going to devote 80% of their brain tissue to a single task for 5+ years) person can code.

It'd be nice to see a 'toy' OS using a BASIC-like system-programming language.. Sure, it would be incredibly aw3sum and complicated.. but that's the whole point.