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zorc :linuxmint: :regolith:
@zorc@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago
‘But not so nice if you’re someone who has lots of bright ideas about what you and everyone else can do together with your network-connected computers. If you’re a bright young physicist at CERN in Geneva in 1989 and you’re noodling around with an idea for a “World Wide Web,” you need an end-to-end network to try it out. If you need permission from the world’s various Bell Systems, including Swisscom, among the most hidebound and anal-retentive telephone companies in the world (a category with stiff competition!), you might as well give up and go back to physics.’ —Cory Doctorow, “Enshittification”, p. 66
‘But not so nice if you’re someone who has lots of bright ideas about what you and everyone else can do together with your network-connected computers. If you’re a bright young physicist at CERN in Geneva in 1989 and you’re noodling around with an idea for a “World Wide Web,” you need an end-to-end network to try it out. If you need permission from the world’s various Bell Systems, including Swisscom, among the most hidebound and anal-retentive telephone companies in the world (a category with stiff competition!), you might as well give up and go back to physics.’ —Cory Doctorow, “Enshittification”, p. 66
‘But not so nice if you’re someone who has lots of bright ideas about what you and everyone else can do together with your network-connected computers. If you’re a bright young physicist at CERN in Geneva in 1989 and you’re noodling around with an idea for a “World Wide Web,” you need an end-to-end network to try it out. If you need permission from the world’s various Bell Systems, including Swisscom, among the most hidebound and anal-retentive telephone companies in the world (a category with stiff competition!), you might as well give up and go back to physics.’ —Cory Doctorow, “Enshittification”, p. 66