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October 26, 2005

Hugh Macleod on Who Owns The Commons

Posted by Stowe Boyd

Hugh (gapingvoid) Macleod sent this along as a comment, referring to the recent post, Nicholas Carr and Om Malik on Who Owns The Commons:

Reminds me of the most bizarre moment of Les Blogs in April... when a French journo started asking Barak Berkowitz, the CEO of Six Apart what he thought his company's social responsibility should be.
"You make tools for ze people but you have no sense of ze social responsibility!!"

I'm guessing MT wasn't beholden enough to the French State and its regulations for the journo's liking.

Like, Barak should spend twenty years ticking off the social responsibilty boxes before being allowed to sell some poor Frenchman a piece of $100 software, just in case something bad happens down the road.

I dunno, the more fertile a field we plough collectively, the more people are going to try to build individual silos on it. That is human nature.

But silos are easy to knock down. Even Google is starting to show chinks in its armor.

The thing is, some people like silos. They like the comfort and status belonging to one affords to them. They're just not used to the idea of silos being vulnerable.

[tags: Hugh Macleod, Amorality of The Web]

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