Very Good!. Thank you for sharing it. * I will pass it to those that need a clue.
Homero A. Gonzalez > worth reading both <http://www.worldofends.com> for those that haven't > yet and Eric's post below (posted here with approval) in addition. this > is one to share with those that need a clue. > > Regards > > Elliot Noss > Tucows inc. > 416-538-5494 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric S. Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:15 PM > To: Doc Searls > Cc: Dave Winer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Dan Gillmor; Dave Farber; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kevin Werbach; Esther > Dyson; Elliot Noss; David L. Sifry; BryanField-Elliot; Charles Roth; > Cindy McCaffrey; Cory Doctorow; Denise Howell; Donna Wentworth; Don > Norman; Evan Williams; J.D. Lasica; Kim Cameron; Lisa Rein; Mary Lu > Wehmeier; Mike Taht; Mitch Ratcliffe; Madison Slade > Subject: Re: World of Ends > > > Doc Searls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> David Weinberger and I have summed up a bunch of what you might call >> Commons Wisdom about the Net in this public draft right here: >> >> <http://www.worldofends.com> >> >> The idea is to help save dumb companies (and whole industries) from >> wasting their money and our time by failing to grok what the Net is >> fundamentally about. > > Very nicely done. I would add this bullet point: > > * The Internet has no secrets > > We've pointed out that the Internet is an agreement, rather than a > thing, and that one of the qualities that makes that agreement > fruitful and powerful is that anyone can join it. One of the central > reasons that anyone can join it is that the net has no secrets. The > technical standards describing how to talk to the Internet are open to > anyone. There is no hidden magic, there are no legal barriers > preventing anyone from re-implementing the Internet, and there are many > implementations of the network available as open-source code. > > The transparency of the Internet's technical standards, and of the code > that implements them, has many benefits. One is that it is > remarkably difficult for software bugs to lurk undetected in the code > for any length of time. The engineers who maintain the Internet have > learned to value this quality a great deal, and to defend it. > > It's not just censorship that the Internet interprets as damage, but > also secrecy and attempts at proprietary control. The attempts of > governments, media conglomerates, and others to impose their own > agendas on the Internet lower its value. > -- > <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
