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Re:The Future Is Not Self-Hosted by bigstrat2003 on Friday July 25, 2025 @10:32PM (#44690799)
> As a public institution you, the citizen, own it.

Nominally, yes. In terms of that meaning anything, no. The benefit of ownership is not exclusivity, but control. If the library doesn't have a book (or other piece of media, of course), I have no power to influence them to get it despite that theoretical ownership. If the librarian decides a book is offensive and removes it from the collection, I have no power to influence them to keep it. I have to live with someone else's decisions about what the library does and does not contain, just like with a commercial service. So my nominal ownership really means nothing at all.

Re:The Future Is Not Self-Hosted by waldopat on Saturday July 26, 2025 @09:43AM (#44694039)
Right. You want free beer not freedom.
Re:The Future Is Not Self-Hosted by rel_ic on Saturday July 26, 2025 @06:45PM (#44697500)
You should go talk to your librarians, you can totally influence all these things!