Software Democracy?

**Snee** · 04-24-2005, 02:53 PM

Zed, then we should be using everything but IE since the majority uses that, to increase diversity.

Incidentally, I have four different browsers installed which I sometimes use.
I don't use plain old IE though.

**100%** · 04-24-2005, 03:01 PM

no wrong - we should be using firefox on ms
using ie, moviemaker, wmp, ms antispyware only makes the monopoly total.

**GepperRankins** · 04-24-2005, 03:08 PM

i have 4 too

**Snee** · 04-24-2005, 03:08 PM

When I say everything but IE, I mean every other browser

The same goes for other software. So I'm with you now.

**100%** · 04-24-2005, 03:19 PM

sorry - my mind read what it wants
im without you now
(i hope)

the power struggle in the software world is equal to that in "reality"

Is a Socialist internet possible or does it already exist?

**Snee** · 04-24-2005, 03:52 PM

The internet seems like a functional anarchy that somehow works for us.

Anarchies can't be societies, yet this sort of works like one.

It's beyond ideologies I think.

**GepperRankins** · 04-24-2005, 03:55 PM

it's because you can clone software so theres nothing to lose with the whole share and share alike thing.

**100%** · 04-24-2005, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by SnnY

The internet seems like a functional anarchy that somehow works for us.

Anarchies can't be societies, yet this sort of works like one.

It's beyond ideologies I think.

Agreed - it grows fast without control yet even on this forum there are strict rules. The codes from the real world will in the end dominate cybur wrld - yet maybe a new code of ethics will arise from this (non based on religion as seen in real world hmm "law"

**Snee** · 04-24-2005, 04:44 PM

Yeah, but most of the rules don't encompass the entire thing, we've got a multitude of little islands of sorts, most with their own rules, but we don't belong in one of these islands, but rather we move between them, and any rules we follow here are rules we've in a sense chosen to follow.

If we didn't like them, we'd just move on, not constrained by the limitations of geography, tradition, or culture.

Because we have have this choice any rules we do end up following should be some sort of archetypes, something we are genetically inclined to follow, or whatever causes the least friction, rather than the rules of our societies that sometimes don't make much sense, as they may be based on tradition and beliefs.