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This is very true and I think it applies to everything, not just software. I was an anarchist at heart until I understood that if you just remove all the rules
by veltas 4y ago
This is very true and I think it applies to everything, not just software. I was an anarchist at heart until I understood that if you just remove all the rules they all just come back with different names, and often in an inferior form.
- eddd-ddde 4y agoSo maybe we need the opposite, a completely authoritarian and centralized way of handling internet services. Imagine if there was a single mail service, provider and client, handling all possible uses cases, a single web browser, etc. Its like the complete opposite end, instead of using a standard protocol to implement your use case, simply improve on _the_ service. [Edit]: Oh, and by 'centralized' I don't mean BigCo is in charge of it and manage the servers for it. What I mean is Public Organization 'owns' the service, but this service could very well be self-hosted by users, decentralized, etc. It's just that it is 'forbidden' that any other organization works or develops a similar service.
- ben_w 4y agoIIRC that was how the UK phone network used to be. Also the USA, if I remember correctly that acoustic couplers predated plug-in modems because users were forbidden from connecting anything other than a phone to the phone network.