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“Mission... reset the balance of power” Does any of the real economic activity want to reduce its power and influence? that’s the opposite of a startup
by dustingetz 6y ago
“Mission... reset the balance of power”
Does any of the real economic activity want to reduce its power and influence? that’s the opposite of a startup
- rektide 6y agoMy guess is there's a lot of companies that would do very very well, if we opened up software & made it flexible. The entire era we live in/just left, the PC era, happened because of Adversarial Interoperability. Massive economic activity was created because "real economic activity" had "reduce[d] its power and influence", as PC-compatible systems emerged & created a robust, fast growing, competitive market place. Did IBM want to? No. But enough legal space was still there to allow companies to create. While IBM could patent inventions, they could not own the idea of an addition ops code to add two numbers. I'd content that the lack of Adversarial Interoperability, this low standard we've sunk to in software world, is holding back vast seas of economic activity. We cannot effectively build new better more interesting, systems, when each piece of software is a closed, inflexible box. We've got to open up to possibility again, just as PC-Compatible opened the doors of possibility that brought Very Large Scale Integrated circuits & systems to us all. Support Adversarial Interoparability. Support Malleable Systems. Support an open future where people can have meaningful interactions with machines & build meaningfully better ones. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interopera...