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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by zentiggr on Monday March 12, 2018 @02:54PM (#16570426)
Blame him or not blame him, it was hypocritical to proclaim in all other forums for open web policies and then not vote against DRM when the chips were down. From my very distant viewpoint, it's almost inexplicable.

I couldn't imagine Stallman, Doctorow, or anyone else with as deep a desire for open systems having that divergent a reaction to the one most galling topic in the whole discussion.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by ocdtrekkie on Monday March 12, 2018 @03:54PM (#16570941)
Stallman and Doctorow have the convenience of not running organizations which have to work with various corporate needs. They can afford to be religious and uncompromisingly devout. I don't think Tim has that luxury.
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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by default-kramer on Monday March 12, 2018 @05:07PM (#16571626)
I think the following quote from Braveheart is awesome. The whole movie seems designed to turn the audience into William Wallace worshipers, except for this line, which causes an attentive viewer to stop and think:

"Admire this man, this William Wallace. Uncompromising men are easy to admire. He has courage, so does a dog. But it is exactly the ability to compromise that makes a man noble."

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by type0 on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @07:58AM (#16575391)
>... ability to compromise that makes a man noble."

Sir Berners-Lee is such a nobility, should we as digital peasants knee before him? Feudalism of the Web is upon us.

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Re:Tim Berners-Lee: we must regulate tech firms to prevent '... by ryanobjc on Monday March 12, 2018 @03:59PM (#16570982)
The problem with this line of conversation is one side is trashing compromise, and the other side looks like they're defending the indefensible.

We do need the Stallmans of the world to be a counter balance, but we won't be able to have him run the entire world. Consider him kind of Galadriel, if you give him the one ring then the world will despair as they love him.

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