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I'm not sure that's the whole problem. The walled garden is a financial incentive for tech companies mainly, isn't it? It seems like it's going to a hard thing

I'm not sure that's the whole problem. The walled garden is a financial incentive for tech companies mainly, isn't it? It seems like it's going to a hard thing to shift; so far it's been a 'who cares' for most of us, but it's really going to start hitting once VR gets big, at least -- as far as I daydream about such things.. Lets' get in a time machine, what I'd really like to see is an open protocol for VR ala 'snow crash' governed in the same sort of way HTTP is, while we're early days now I think we can probably assume that VR, somewhere down the line potentially 'browser replacement' in reach but I'm not really sure that can ever really happen though when we're building lots of isolated gardens which speak different languages -- as the way things currently are? Do you think the motivations of e.g sony or htc not to go down the same path http did are because of the CFAA and over-regulation instead of money reasons? It seems to me short sighted quick returns, lock in and incompat are going to play bigger roles than govt reg in the next decades in stifling progress -- I'd like to hear your take..

cookiecaper 10y ago
The thing is that the government is co-conspiring with the large companies to allow them to enforce their walled gardens through the wholly-artificial means of the CFAA, copyright, etc. If the government stopped allowing large companies to haul innovators to court for accessing the data that that company willfully shared with the innovator's browser, the wall, at least on SaaS-style services, would be broken as third-party federators would be free to come in and tranform that data into something compatible with competing solutions. The data would be able to flow freely and the user would be free to access the data through Facebook directly or through a competitor service, and products would need to compete for users on merit instead of taking one's social graph hostage. The web enables this portability, but the government has set up rules (in some cases, inadvertently and through negligence) that stop people from competing on an even playing field. We need to fix those rules. CFAA, EULAs, and copyright for RAM copies is a start.

cookiecaper 10y ago

The thing is that the government is co-conspiring with the large companies to allow them to enforce their walled gardens through the wholly-artificial means of the CFAA, copyright, etc. If the government stopped allowing large companies to haul innovators to court for accessing the data that that company willfully shared with the innovator's browser, the wall, at least on SaaS-style services, would be broken as third-party federators would be free to come in and tranform that data into something compatible with competing solutions. The data would be able to flow freely and the user would be free to access the data through Facebook directly or through a competitor service, and products would need to compete for users on merit instead of taking one's social graph hostage. The web enables this portability, but the government has set up rules (in some cases, inadvertently and through negligence) that stop people from competing on an even playing field. We need to fix those rules. CFAA, EULAs, and copyright for RAM copies is a start.