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José Mota on October 12th, 2011

Boone Gorges is done with Apple Next time someone asks me (and I get asked that a lot) “Why don’t you have an iPhone” or “Have you bought an iPad yet” and look puzzled when I tell them “I don’t buy Apple” I can point them to this post by Boone Gorges. It’s the perfect [...]

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José Mota on September 27th, 2011

Adrian Short raises some crucial points on ownership, identity and control on the web. As he says"The promise of the open web looks increasingly uncertain". The question is what can/should we do (if we care about that, of course). It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short This was posted [...]

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PdF 2011 | Eben Moglen: The alternate net we need, and how we can build it ourselves This was posted on Google+…

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José Mota on May 24th, 2011

This is rather unreasonable, but it seems a new business model for many companies – take what users share for free, make money out of it and harass everyone who wants to use what has been shared. After the web 2.0 “revolution”, corporations are trying to regain control of the web, content, users and uses. [...]

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