Facebook and Social networking: Tim Berners-Lee closes the stable door after the horse has bolted

Posted by scrubs on Dec 18, 2010 4:56 AM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Gary Richmond
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Since I started using computers and since I abandoned the choppy waters of Windows for the safe harbour of FOSS, the internet has experienced huge change and rapid growth. Better web browsers, file sharing, iPhones, iPads and other touch screen tablets too. The one thing that has not changed much though is that GNU/Linux always seems to breast the tape second. It seems fated to forever be behind the curve. I can live with that as long as I’m using my software my way. Free and open. However, that has implications for freedom and privacy that I don’t like living with—and neither does Tim Berners-Lee. Specifically, he has been venting about those very things in respect of social networks and how they threaten that freedom and privacy. Read the article at Freesoftware Magazine.

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