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> Instead it's decentralization that fixes it. That's FOSS. You can have FOSS using centralized, federated or decentralized protocols, I don't see a direct con
by hiq 5y ago
> Instead it's decentralization that fixes it.
That's FOSS. You can have FOSS using centralized, federated or decentralized protocols, I don't see a direct connection between the two.
To go back a little, Moxie's main point has always been about the advantages of centralized protocols vs decentralized ones, not about FOSS vs proprietary software. In practice, he seems to favor (at least for Signal) centralized protocols and FOSS.
- mike_hearn 5y agoIt doesn't have to be open source. The same argument applied when most browsers were proprietary, it was just less strong because it was so much harder to create a competitor. There was still competition though, and a decentralized network of servers (you can think of links as edges in a p2p network).