Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by EGreg on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:33AM
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It’s not so black—and-white
FAANG got their monopoly by having tech stacks able to do basic Web 2.0 features better than open source alternatives.
Once upon a time AOL was the FB of the day and Steve Case was the Mark Z. What happened? The Web Browser happened. HTTP was an open protocol and people could run their own domain foo.com instead of “keyword Foo”
Do you think FAANG could have gotten their start on top of AOL, MSN, Compuserve? The previous FAANG?
What we need is simply to create an open source alternative to FAANG that is permissionless and built on top of the open Web.
FAANG got their monopoly by having tech stacks able to do basic Web 2.0 features better than open source alternatives.
Once upon a time AOL was the FB of the day and Steve Case was the Mark Z. What happened? The Web Browser happened. HTTP was an open protocol and people could run their own domain foo.com instead of “keyword Foo”
Do you think FAANG could have gotten their start on top of AOL, MSN, Compuserve? The previous FAANG?
What we need is simply to create an open source alternative to FAANG that is permissionless and built on top of the open Web.
I’m doing it, as are many other projects: https://qbix.com/QBUX/whitepaper.html#Distributed-Operating-...