Evan has been doing a lot of work that I hoped someone would do around networked free software, and the way identi.ca peers is similar to the way I've suggested OFLB could peer.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/8/30 Subject: Franklin Street Statement and Free Network Services To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, all. I'm interested in getting some feedback from the list on the Franklin Street Statement: http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ ...and on the Open Software Service Definition: http://www.opendefinition.org/ossd I'm currently working on an Open Software Service called Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/ It's a microblogging site (think Twitter) built on Open Source software and Open Data. To add to the fun, we use a distributed social networking model, with a fun little open protocol called OpenMicroBlogging. Things are going a leetle beet crazy with Open Source and Web services lately. An Open Source, Open Data site is the 8th biggest (or is it 7th now?) on Alexa. Reddit went FLOSS a while ago, and Ma.gnolia.com just announced their M2 project. Second players in network-effects markets can change the game with Open Source. In a closed world, it's silo vs. silo, and the biggest silo wins. But in an open world, it's protocol vs. silo, or Internet vs. silo, and no silo is as big as the Internet. It's not a guaranteed win, but in a network-effect market, it's about the best chance you've got if you're not in first place. Thoughts, ideas, feelings, emotions? -Evan -- Evan Prodromou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Regards, Dave "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software." - Bill Gates, 1976, in want of www.gnuherds.org _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
