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HN loves to talk about how Open Source and distributed system are going to change the world. Apache and Linux were open source. The Internet was designed to b
by burtonator 6y ago
HN loves to talk about how Open Source and distributed system are going to change the world.
Apache and Linux were open source. The Internet was designed to be distributed. We failed.
We still had centralization. We still have SPoF...
The issue is economic, not technical.
When corporations like Amazon and Google have severely unfair competitive advantages we're going up in this situation again and again and again.
The only way to change this is to reform tax law.
- kazagistar 6y agoAnd the only way to reform tax law is to reform speech law to prevent blatant corruption.
- Ericson2314 6y agoYes, I agree. But it's far easier to push technology----where incremental progress like Pine64-ing everything you own is possible----than push for political stuff when e.g. FTFP means you'd have to move first. I, for one, see technological replicating the stagnation and over-complexity of human systems (say US was kinda alright in 1790, Unix in 1970). I Hope that if the technological and organizational problems of free software/hardware can be solved, we can use that experience to tackle the real-life problems.
- jameslk 6y ago> The only way to change this is to reform tax law. I'm curious what kind of tax reform you have in mind?