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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by jrm4 on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:35PM (#27633905)
Exactly. "Citizen-owned" is half-right. FOSS gets you the rest of the way.
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Re:WD My Book users wake up to find their data deleted by specialist on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:01PM (#27634213)
FOSS is the start. Then comes governance, culture, etc.

Bryan Cantrill's "Power to Fork" thesis is relevant. http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/08/03/opensolaris-and-the-p...

Sadly, I lived that experience on another FOSS project. Wish I had heard Cantrill before I committed to that effort.

I'm also deeply influenced by Pieter Hintjens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens#Bibliography Ditto Clay Shirky, eg Here Comes Everyone.

Nadia Eghbal's research is on my reading list. https://nadiaeghbal.com/oss/ Having just skim read, it looks very insightful, cogent.

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