DISQUS

Technology Liberation Front: Enlightening Some of the Closed Thinking about Openness

  • Tim Lee · 1 year ago
    You neglected to mention that openness is also the rallying cry of individuals who don't the way regulatory schemes like the DMCA and software patents tilt the playing field against interoperability. The government should indeed be neutral, which is why it shouldn't impede third parties from using reverse-engineering to convert a previously-closed format into a de facto open one.