San Jose Mercury News columnist Dan Gillmor has written an excellent assessment of this year’s Computers, Freedom & Privacy conference in his column today.
Comparing the building of public values into software to adding a hot water system to a home after it’s built, Gillmor accurately identifies the two main problems: businesses care only about their bottom lines and governments’ agendas run contrary to individual concerns.
Gillmor uses the current move among digital rights management (DRM) vendors to thwart the citizenry’s fair use rights as an example of a public value that must be built into software systems.
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