> Technology is all about making stuff easier, and web is pretty enabling when it comes to walled gardens and other unethical conduct. The web enabled us to re

> Technology is all about making stuff easier, and web is pretty enabling when it comes to walled gardens and other unethical conduct. The web enabled us to reason about walled gardens in the first place. Before the advent of the web there was no talk about walled gardens simply because everything was a walled garden. > Ultimately, the web is what killed end-user open source That implies that end user open source had really lived before. For end users open source while not exactly irrelevant never has played a huge role. One reason for that perhaps is that there doesn't seem to be a long-term viable business model for open source desktop applications. > A web application is an ultimate anathema to both open source and free software - you don't get to run the program as you like, you can't inspect it in any way That's the case for pretty much any client-server application. The Affero GPL for example tries to remedy this but again that's more a question of business model rather than technology.