The Generative Internet, by Jonathan Zittrain, Esq. -- RFC (Groklaw) [LWN.net]

Groklaw has published an article by Jonathan Zittrain entitled "The Generative Internet", the author is requesting comments on the work: "I've just finished a new paper on the future of the Net, in which I extol its open qualities but fear that a focus on an open Internet can too often exclude worrying about an open PC -- which I define in a broader fashion than the divide between free and proprietary software typically contemplates. I think it's critically important that users retain general purpose PCs, even some with proprietary OSes, instead of "information appliances." I fear these appliances, like TiVo, can come to predominate -- or that the PC itself will morph towards becoming one, with new gatekeepers determining what code will or won't run on them, rather than the users themselves."

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The Filler (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 31, 2006 3:14 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

Comment on the article without disparaging reference to its author might
be justified (it seems wordy to me too) -- but to describe it as a
'student essay' is embarrassingly inaccurate. The author appeared for
the plaintiff in Eldred vs Ashcroft and is a professor at Oxford.

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The Filler (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 31, 2006 7:15 UTC (Mon) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

It's all very well reading the article, but what if you don't *understand* it.

Which seems to be general response from most people on Groklaw...

Cheers,
Wol

The Filler (Groklaw)

Posted Aug 2, 2006 1:11 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

I think LWN links to such things on Groklaw because the LWN readership is
exactly the sort of person who is likely to have an interest in this sort
of thing. If there's any difficulty comprehending this article in
particular it's mostly through attenuation of attention :-)

The Filler (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 31, 2006 7:41 UTC (Mon) by warmcat1 (guest, #31975) [Link]

> The author appeared for
> the plaintiff in Eldred vs
> Ashcroft and is a professor
> at Oxford.

Fair enough, but why is it on LWN, like all the other notifications of book reviews from Groklaw that show up as if LWN is the Groklaw RSS feed. It's like Max is posting for Norma Desmond.