Is the OpenService model viable?
Looking at the events that unfold around torrent trackers, search engines, social networks (lawsuits against pirates, censorship and commercial propaganda in search engines, lawsuits based on records in social networks, etc.), I want to understand what will happen next ? Will the Internet remain an island of freedom in which users decide the rules themselves, or will state machines take control of this environment? Or the confrontation will always continue with alternate success?
Now I see one way out of the established clinch - the creation of open public services on the platform of open public clouds.
In such a structure, the user “shares” the processor power and the storage capacity of his computer for the provision of services. The user chooses for which services he allocates how many resources. It is logical that the services are provided using open source software, so that users can, if they wish, make sure that the application does not do anything that they don’t like. Authentication in such a system should not be centralized, but mutual, like f2f. Thus, the system will not have a single “superadmin”, and the community decides whether or not to accept any changes / updates in the code. Whoever does not agree, he refuses to “share” his resources in the cloud, creates his own forks of the cloud, etc.
The existing systems are close to making this a reality, but ... But there is one drawback, there is no direct profit in this model, because such a system does not have an owner who could appropriate this profit. The user receives no more than the opportunity to use the services of such open services for providing his resources And if there is no direct profit, is such a model viable?
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What does the habrasoc community think about this? Is “Internet socialism” possible or is it utopia?
Now I see one way out of the established clinch - the creation of open public services on the platform of open public clouds.
In such a structure, the user “shares” the processor power and the storage capacity of his computer for the provision of services. The user chooses for which services he allocates how many resources. It is logical that the services are provided using open source software, so that users can, if they wish, make sure that the application does not do anything that they don’t like. Authentication in such a system should not be centralized, but mutual, like f2f. Thus, the system will not have a single “superadmin”, and the community decides whether or not to accept any changes / updates in the code. Whoever does not agree, he refuses to “share” his resources in the cloud, creates his own forks of the cloud, etc.
The existing systems are close to making this a reality, but ... But there is one drawback, there is no direct profit in this model, because such a system does not have an owner who could appropriate this profit. The user receives no more than the opportunity to use the services of such open services for providing his resources And if there is no direct profit, is such a model viable?
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What does the habrasoc community think about this? Is “Internet socialism” possible or is it utopia?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/97774/
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