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July 13, 2003

SW is political

John Naughton in The Guardian seems to have discovered Lessig's Law. Naughton writes:

,,,software determines the architecture of cyberspace, and thus determines what you can do with and in the space.

Software is political. He has a good column about it that includes Ed Felten's suggestion that the open source community come up with filters as an alternative to the opaque commerical filters libraries can now be required to use. (Thanks to Alice Marshall for the link.)

Note: I don't know what Lessig's Law is. I made it up figuring that if anyone deserves to have a law named after him, it's Lessig.

Posted by D. Weinberger at July 13, 2003 12:44 PM

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