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When a concerted effort is made by an industry leader to kill open standards in favor of locking down users to their ecosystem (or "stack" as bruce sterling put
by nakedrobot2 13y ago
When a concerted effort is made by an industry leader to kill open standards in favor of locking down users to their ecosystem (or "stack" as bruce sterling puts it)
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-sterling-on-why-it-stopped-making-sense-to-talk-about-the-internet-in-2012/266674/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/12/bruce-...
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/04/text-of-sxsw2013-closing-remarks-by-bruce-sterling/ http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/04/text-of-sxsw2...
- Retric 13y agoIt's not zero sum. High quality walled gardens push the 'open' world just as much as high quality 'open' solutions push walled gardens. Consider as much as people complain about walled gardens DNS is quietly backing the 'open' web because some things really do work better as a walled gardens.