|
|
Subscribe / Log in / New account

server prohibition? net neutrality?

server prohibition? net neutrality?

Posted Jan 27, 2018 20:13 UTC (Sat) by Garak (guest, #99377)
In reply to: server prohibition? net neutrality? by mpr22
Parent article: ActivityPub is now a W3C recommended standard

You've misunderstood my position. My belief is that if the internet is established as a 2-way street platform (no server-prohibition), that we would see the rapid advancement of home server based solutions that are no more technically complex to set up than modern big company cloud based devices/services. I do have belief that there are a large enough number of technical users to get the ball rolling. I view it as the same dynamic as Linux. In the late 90's and early 00's, Linux required users to be very technical. There were a lot of pains in utilizing Linux as your OS. A decade later, and the popular distributions have collected a tremendous amount of volunteered work that makes Linux quite usable by non/less-technical people. The key element is the internet as a platform. Currently the FCC ensures it is a platform amenable to "energetically marketed pre-built client for a client-server arrangement run by a corporation". And thus those corporations are predominant. If the FCC ensured it was a platform for any FOSS developer providing home-server based software to anyone who wished to try it out, I think we would fairly rapidly see such options regain their rightful place on the internet. $0.02.


to post comments


Copyright © 2025, Eklektix, Inc.
Comments and public postings are copyrighted by their creators.
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds