It used to be taken for granted that the web was and always would be open. That assumption has increasingly come under fire as cloud computing has set up walled gardens for data and services…much as the desktop has done.
Tim O’Reilly addressed the threat of closed clouds and closed mobile devices to access the web in his keynote at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention.
Tim seemed to have lost interest in open source over the past few years, his interest instead turning to Web 2.0 (though he continued to recognize the need for an upgrade to the way we think of open source in terms of licenses instead of services). But somehow, somewhere, Tim re-discovered the importance of open source, this time in keeping Web 2.0 from turning into Manacle 2.0.
I’m not sure that you ever truly left, Tim, but this call to arms is timely and welcome. In his keynote, Tim said:
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