PUBLIC MARKS with tag opendata

Lately, I've seen some people criticize Mozilla because a particular bug (often a request for a new feature) that they care a lot about hasn't been fixed, on the basis that the bug was filed some number of years ago (generally more than five). I think this line of criticism is undeserved and seriously misguided. People who make this argument are, effectively, criticizing us for our openness.

Try to lock them in and they’ll walk away · Put it another way: make it easy to walk away, and they’ll come back. ¶

Why Digital Rights Management is Wrong

And my conclusion is... it is not that easy :-)

This image shows some of the datasets published in the Linking Open Data community project.

Standardized Data Portability is the next great frontier for the web. As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data.