Right, I just wanted to make the distinction between the lack of features making source code easily discoverable and an architectural change to the application layer of the Internet.
AK On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Alex Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but view source is sort of just a usability >> shortcut. Since the browser interprets the markup anyway (or rather, since >> the server responds with markup to an http get request) the source will >> always be available to the client in principle. I can't imagine that ever >> changing. >> >> AK >> > > It can easily be changed. "game consoles" such as the X-Box-n > and the PS-n also render to the screen and to the loudspeakers > stuff sent over the Net. Yet, usually, it is not easy to view > source on these devices. > > FC must fight to keep two things: > > 1. Our right to own a computer. > > 2. Our right to use the Net for private, tribal, business, and > public purposes. > > Else there will be little culture except that which the > Englobulators arrange/allow. > > oo--JS. > > > > >> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Kevin Driscoll <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:42:35 +0100 >>>> From: Rob Myers <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: Re: [FC-discuss] Anti-Free Culture articles? >>>> >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> that the web was "open" from the start (the protocols that Lanier is so >>>> cirtical of, and the "view source" menu option that Android's browser >>>> doesn't have, for example), but the rigorous adoption of free software >>>> >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> >>> Wait. Hold the phone. No View Source? >>> >>> At the risk of hyperbole, I believe that "View source" is the single >>> technology that enabled the popular web. How else did everyone learn >>> broke-ass HTML but from reading others' code? (You know it wasn't >>> FrontPage.) >>> >>> In fact, I was nearly giddy 2 days ago when I "view(ed) source" on the >>> interactive google logo and saw actual javascript code laid out right >>> in front of me! >>> >>> I'll flip a car if View Source goes away. >>> >>> K. Driscoll >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss >
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