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Once you've built a community and a "library" though, as we see, it's hard to up and move it. At least, until the guy who owns the library threatens to burn it
by EA-3167 3y ago
Once you've built a community and a "library" though, as we see, it's hard to up and move it. At least, until the guy who owns the library threatens to burn it all down.
- jrm4 3y agoThe whole damn point of the internet is that the "library" never ever ever actually MUST be "owned."
- krapp 3y agoSince when? Every website on every server going back to the very first one at CERN has been owned by someone.
- jrm4 3y agoSeems like it should be relatively clear that when I say "owned" here, I mean "strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner." Like, sure, university libraries are "owned" by the school, but one can generally reliably treat them as "public."
- krapp 3y agoEvery server is strongly subject to the whims of a possibly capricious owner. One cannot reliably treat any website as "public" because it really isn't. At the end of the day it's one or more boxes plugged into a wall you can't access one which one or more people other than yourself has admin and root privileges. It's someone else's property. Not yours, not "the public's."
- EA-3167 3y agoThat may be the intent of some of the early founders, and it may be your and my preference, but it definitely isn't what has ever existed.