Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Open source is a transformative model for building software. However, there are a few important problems with it, including but not limited to: 1. "Libre" has become synonymous with "no recurring license", meaning it's hard for vendors to make money from open source software
Garage Band for iPhone, I'm counting on you to do all the heavy lifting here.
@erinjo Deviceless for the next 90 minutes. Weird.
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The Internet should be an empowering force. Companies that use new technologies to disempower ordinary people deserve to fail.
I strongly suspect that some companies see the sharing economy as a way to bypass worker rights. This is very clearly not the case.
@dbounds This kind of activism, & other forms of organization like unions, are a necessary counterbalance to corporate need to reduce costs.
@dbounds Partially because the ability to move is a privilege in itself. There are many reasons why people often can't.
@dbounds I'm saying that it certainly won't happen fast enough and many people have poor quality of life as a result.
@dbounds When the market is gamed by inside connections & other uneven forces, as it inevitably is, social supply & demand breaks down.
@dbounds I'm actually here to be closer to my family. But that aside, supply and demand only works as a mechanism in a fair market.