Only a hopeless dreamer would expect things to turn out any differently in the corporate world we live in.
The upside is, there is still room for us to operate. My opinion [of the net] was formed by reading a book a long time ago...
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...We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...
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from some interviews with Harry Harrison describing the Stainless Steel Rat idea.
In one story, the Stainless Steel Rat has to use the "network" via a freely accessible public terminal, which is completely under government control. Of course, he hacks in and uses it for his own devices.
That was when the first realisations started forming in my childish mind. This was pre-public-internet, no mass market home computers. I knew this was important somehow.
And here we are. This is what linux means to me, freedom to tinker. Windows was becoming far too much like the public terminal for me. Amazon even started patenting web design !
I came here via freeBSD, but there seemed to be faster development on linux (GPL !). Keep it coming ...
Internet has 'not become the great leveller’
