An Unsolicited Opinion

Sep 08, 2020

A few days ago Miguel de Icaza blogged about the recent kerfuffle regarding Epic and Apple. Miguel’s reminiscences of the early Internet match largely my own – I loved the utopia, I had high hopes, optimistic dreams about the Internet’s future etc etc. Things, however, have changed and the Internet is what it is now, not going to go back to its previous self. That, in itself, is a problem but one we can’t probably do much about since, like many of our creations, the Internet has a dynamic life of its own and is an outcome of actions, views, opinions of billions of people who create so many ripples, so many actions and reactions that nobody can really control what’s going on there (despite attempts in earnest to do so).…