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Stephen Downes

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Doc Searls sounds the cautionary note to the effect that as we lose our rights over the stuff we purchase, we lose the benefits an open society offers. "The wide-open computers most of us used for decades are also being marginalized now that more of our connected lives are moving to partially-open smartphones, tablets, Kindles and Nooks... By losing the free and open Internet, and free and open devices to interact with it — and even such ordinary things as physical books and music media — we reduce the full scope of both markets and civilization." Too true. Good post with numerous links.

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