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I think Google and Facebook will face the same enemy that Microsoft faced back in the 1990s - the nameless and faceless, Open Source! Maybe, if FOSS can build
by rms_returns 10y ago
I think Google and Facebook will face the same enemy that Microsoft faced back in the 1990s - the nameless and faceless, Open Source!
Maybe, if FOSS can build a self-syncing co-operating network spanning multiple nodes across the globe, they can solve the infrastructure/data-storage problem (we already have two precedents here, namely Bitcoin and Bittorrent networks).
Finally, if FOSS can also convince a good proportion of masses to crowdsource their efforts, they would have solved the data acquisition problem too!
- dandelion_lover 10y ago>self-syncing co-operating network spanning multiple nodes across the globe It's already there, see http://yacy.net/en/index.html http://yacy.net/en/index.html.
- alkchr 10y agoThe idea is great and I wish them good luck. But, unfortunately, it isn't usable yet IMO.