Despite all the talk of the ideals of the web being based upon freedom
and sharing and anti-authority there was no mention of Linux or even
Unix, or the Free Software Foundation (there was an interview with the
Grateful Dead founding member of EFF). Sure those are things more under
the hood, but so many hints to them and opportunities. It was like it
was censored out.

There was but one single utterance of the phrase "open source" - by our
good friend Stephen Fry.

Otherwise quite good as (mainly) introductory material about the ideals
which have formed the web and the struggles between freedom and
corporations which have played out on it.

James.



On 30/1/2010, "james morris" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>The Virtual Revolution
>
>Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks
>Krotoski looks at how it is reshaping our lives.
>
>The Virtual Revolution is the story of the web told not just by top web
>celebrities and big names, but also by webusers from Teeside to Taiwan.
>
>Saturday 30th January, 8.30pm, BBC Two
>
>http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/
>
>Right, I'm off out to party all night !
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