[WOS] Vonner Kathedrale innen Park

[Detlef Borchers]

Free Source as Free Thought: Architecting Free Standards
by Steve Mann

As we build cyberspace, it is up to us, as individuals, not to promote
illiteracy and proprietary standards that shut out those who fail to
purchase computer programs from a specific vendor. It has become
fashionable to blame others, such as Microsoft, for creating what is
known
as the "dark ages of computing".  However, I suggest that we can and
should
look to ourselves as the source of the problem. In this article, I
propose
the "public park" analogy as a first point of departure from current
critical thinking, and as a framework with which to better understand
possible conflict of interest in government and education. Moreover, in
the
age of Personal Cybernetics (personal electronics, wearable computing,
implantables.com, etc.), this issue will become all the more important.
When "technology as extensions of mind and body" is no longer a
metaphor,
will we have already sold our heart and soul for software of a
particular
corporation, or will our thoughts be free?

http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_1/mann/


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