Re:Introducing the Google Chrome OS
by jackchristopher on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @12:52PM
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The danger is and always has been centralized control (and not just in software). No one should own the web OS — the web is ours.
Stallman & Co. foresaw this (at least) a decade ago. He's right to be worried. The real issue is: what are rights in the digital age? Who has control of what?
I might not back everything he's done. And he sometimes dismisses technical issues as trivial over political ones unnecessarily. But he is having the conversation at the right level of abstraction.
We'll keep facing the pitfalls of centralized power until we collectively decide to kill that beast permanently.
Stallman & Co. foresaw this (at least) a decade ago. He's right to be worried. The real issue is: what are rights in the digital age? Who has control of what?
I might not back everything he's done. And he sometimes dismisses technical issues as trivial over political ones unnecessarily. But he is having the conversation at the right level of abstraction.
We'll keep facing the pitfalls of centralized power until we collectively decide to kill that beast permanently.