How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Everyone who’s into the fediverse concept should read this article.
You want “entities” to host activitypub instances. It would be great if schools, newspapers, flying clubs, municipal governments, etc. all had their own instances running.
What you don’t want is a for-profit company to use its monopoly to embrace, extend and extinguish the protocol. But, you can’t prevent that with a rule like “no entity can run an instance”. Really, what you need is governments to use their antitrust powers to block anticompetitive actions. Google arguably had a near monopoly in email, that’s why they were able to use gmail chat as a lever. Microsoft had a desktop monopoly, that’s how they used it to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Netscape.
It was just an example. You could change it to be however would be best suited.
Eg: “No For-Profit entities(Or entities linked to entities) with an annual income greater than 1million USD.”
Im not a lawyer, but im sure you could make something that would work and would be very hard to get around.
Why doesn’t activitypub add like a copy left of sorts to their software?
Make it so no entity can host an instance. No corporations, countries, etc.
You want “entities” to host activitypub instances. It would be great if schools, newspapers, flying clubs, municipal governments, etc. all had their own instances running.
What you don’t want is a for-profit company to use its monopoly to embrace, extend and extinguish the protocol. But, you can’t prevent that with a rule like “no entity can run an instance”. Really, what you need is governments to use their antitrust powers to block anticompetitive actions. Google arguably had a near monopoly in email, that’s why they were able to use gmail chat as a lever. Microsoft had a desktop monopoly, that’s how they used it to Embrace, Extend, Extinguish Netscape.
It was just an example. You could change it to be however would be best suited. Eg: “No For-Profit entities(Or entities linked to entities) with an annual income greater than 1million USD.”
Im not a lawyer, but im sure you could make something that would work and would be very hard to get around.