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I would put WEI together with a together with a number of other recent changes that I think signal that the land grab error of the web is over, and that web bas
by rowls66 3y ago
I would put WEI together with a together with a number of other recent changes that I think signal that the land grab error of the web is over, and that web based businesses need to get real about their economics.
1) Netflix restricting password sharing
2) RedHat pushing the limits of the GPL to restrict RHEL re-distribution
In some ways, I think this could be a good thing, in that it clearly separates the advertising funded web (the commerical web) from the altruistically funded web (the free web). Maybe with a little luck, the free web becomes something more akin to the web circa 2000 even it has alot less information. That might be better than the open sewer of a web that we have today.
- mistrial9 3y agodrug-or-money addicted jerks with computer science training the world over appear to be opportunistically and unrelentingly filling open space with harmful garbage; spiritually similar to open piles of garbage around the street homes of deeply suffering people to my eye. There have to be fences and sanitation of some kind. Handing the entire process over to profit-motivated corps is not the answer, either. It is looking pretty bad today, from here
- mistercheph 3y agoI agree, greed or drug addiction are the only motives I could see for why jerks with computer science training continue to work on products like chrome
- mistrial9 3y agoat a deeper level, something like a Faustian Bargain is probably more apt to model the skilled, less addicted participants...