[governance] Towards a Permission-Based Web

[Jeffrey A. Williams]

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See:http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2009/10/30/towards-a-permission-based-web-wherefore-net-neutrality-or-maybe-open-source-wins-after-all/

On his blog over at RedMonk, analyst James Governor looks at the
walled garden we seem to be moving into, and possible cracks in the wall.
"As we rush to purchase Apple products and services on Cupertinos
monochrome treadmill of shiny shiny, I can't help thinking the open web
community is losing something vital a commitment to net neutrality and
platform openness. If a single company can decide what plays on the
network and what does not, in arbitrary fashion, how can that be net
neutrality? ... Is the AppStore a neutral network? Should it be? Is
Comcast, the company net neutrality proponents love to hate, really the
only company we should be wary of? Pipe level neutrality is surely only
one layer of a stack. The wider market always chooses proprietary
wrappers every technology wave is co-opted by a master packager.
Success in the IT industry has always been about packaging doing the
best job of packaging technologies as they emerge. Twas ever thus."
Governor ends his essay with an optimistic look at Android, which he says
"potentially fragments The Permission Based Web, and associated data
ownership-based business models."

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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