Interesting, but what makes anyone believe we'll always need the big corporate 
players?

A small example of what I mean is this...

http://community.livejournal.com/lj2wordpress/

where they're working on building a distributed clone of LiveJournal, just one 
that doesn't depend on central servers.  (And yeah, using an LJ community to 
discuss it;)

Could not the same be done with Flickr or MySpace?  And maybe even searching?

REBOL would be a cool tool for this - if only it was open-source...

-- Carl Read.


On Thursday, 22-March-2007 at 9:28:29 Ed O'Connor wrote,

>Just to keep the conversation flowing, here's a blog post titled: Why
>the Semantic Web Will Fail.
>
>The author (not me) makes some interesting points about the big
>corporate players on the web and how they're out to exploit you and
>appropriate your content for their advantage.
>
>Although open source isn't specifically mentioned, I assume the author
>would agree that only OSS is trustworthy, and that it is essential to
>preserve vitality and personal freedom on the web.
>
>Not intended to be flamebait about open source-- just a brief post
>that I thought might be interesting to share.
>
>Ed
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