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"Every Xanadu service provider" I would much rather live with broken links than rely on the centralized infrastructure that would be required to implement anyt
by yesimahuman 17y ago
"Every Xanadu service provider"
I would much rather live with broken links than rely on the centralized infrastructure that would be required to implement anything like Xanadu (which would ultimately end up being a government, university, or business run system anyways). Sure, Facebook Connect and Microsoft Passport are commercial "poison" in terms of centralized identification and authentication, but at least we have the ability to choose or implement our own systems.
- eleitl 17y ago> than rely on the centralized infrastructure I wonder why you think such infrastructure must be central. It's certainly not part of the spec.
- joe_the_user 17y agoBingo, Nelson anticipating many of the features of the web was great. The extra features he "anticipated" were exactly what made Xanadu impossible to implement as well undesirable to implement (see RMS' The Right To Read).
- omouse 17y agoThe extra features he "anticipated" were exactly what made Xanadu impossible to implement And yet everyone wants to implement all of those features eventually...funny how that works.
- evgen 17y agoIsn't that how it always happens? Someone will come up with a grand vision that is impossible to implement given the current technology or environment. Someone else will strip it down to the essential bits that are achievable. The next person will add another feature or layer that adds value to the network as a whole (and which would be valueless if it were not for that first, dumbed-down version), etc.
- davidmathers 17y agoaka "Worse is Better"