[chapter-delegates] An analysis - INTERNET GOVERNANCE PROJECT: "What to Do About ICANN"

[Irwan Effendi]

Veni,

If you like to use forest as analogy, then I will follow suit.

When I encounter a bear in the forest, I have two choice:
- I can attack the bear, expecting to kill it. Of course, it will counter
attack.
- I can run and find other predators such as tigers, lions, or what ever,
and lure this predator to meet the bear. Once they meet, they will clash and
ignore me until one of them wins.

IMHO, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and even Open Source Community are all
predators in their own league. We can keep them all at bay by not letting
any of them become too strong compared to the others, or we can try to
eliminate them or pinned them down. But, keep in mind that in the process of
eliminating or pinning them, we ourselves becomes predators.

Therefore, personally I do not want all software to be open source, just as
strongly as I do not want to pay four month salary for operating system plus
standard office applications.What I dream about is a condition where the
balance of power between open source and proprietary comes to such an extend
that any piece of software is decently priced according to its target market

Best regards,

Irwan Effendi


> That's the case if you are on the boat. But if you are in the forest,
where
> there are some predators that want to eat you, or to make you pay
excessive
> amounts of money for the software they sell you through your government
and
> at prices 2, 3 or 4 times higher than on the streets, then to follow your
> advise will be a suicide.
>
> So, compromise - yes, where this is possible.
> Have positions on different issues - even more yes.
>
> The world today is not a boat. There are many people who don't want the
> Internet to work free of control, the way it is. If we don't confront them
> today, tomorrow they will not compromise with us - they will just eat us.
>
> I hope now things are more clear:)
>
> veni
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