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Doc Searls on DIY IT

I'm digging the penguins in Doc's slides for his presentation DIY-IT: How Open Source is turning IT into a Do-IT-Yourself marketplace, presented at Linux World Ireland. Doc says "Linux is what happened when the demand side started supplying itself." He also mentions how Intel tried to claim ownership of wi-fi, a technology that actually emerged from the bottom up with little help from Intel or any other large corporation. Intel hopped on with Centrino but only after wi-fi's momentum was too much to ignore. (Doc doesn't mention the later AMD attempt to imply responsibility for hotspots that were set up by nonprofit community wireless groups like Austin Wireless City). Doc shows that the real wi-fi heroes are DIY techs operating in the Open Source spirit , and he gets to the three virtues that drive Open Source (and are core Internet values, as well).

Nobody owns it.
Everybody can use it.
Anybody can improve it.

I'm fond of this slide, too. And a following slide where ubiquity creates infrastructure... and finally how it oughta work, where infrastructure is open and public domain, and the closed proprietary commercial stuff is just a layer that sits on the open infrastructure.

jon posted this at 9:50 AM
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