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 >-- >To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to >lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.15/728 - Release Date: 20/03/2007 >8:07 a.m. > -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
