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Re:The End of the Internet Dream by marssaxman on Monday November 23, 2015 @03:15PM (#10617007)
Almost won?

If you have to talk to the application over HTTP, then it's not your application: you don't control it, and you don't control the data it works on.

From my perspective, we're very close to losing the whole thing.

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Re:The End of the Internet Dream by matt_kantor on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @06:20PM (#10624295)
> If you have to talk to the application over HTTP, then it's not your application

Huh? Just to give one counter-example, I talk to my Kodi mediacenter over HTTP (using https://github.com/jez500/chorus) and when I'm at home the packets never leave my apartment or touch a device I don't own. The whole stack is open source to boot.

I guess you're talking about Facebook-style walled gardens, but HTTP give you more control over those (vs some proprietary protocol), not less.

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Re:The End of the Internet Dream by marssaxman on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:55PM (#10629628)
I'm talking about the web, of course, and it was a blatant generalization in order to make a point briefly. Congratulations on finding a counterexample, but we're talking about unrelated phenomena belonging to entirely different scales.
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