That said ... putting part of your soul into machine format so you can put it on on the big shared machine using your personal machine and expecting that only other really truly quintessentially proper personal machines receive it and those soulless other machines don't ... is strange.
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If people want a walled garden (and yeah, sure, I sometimes want one too) then let's do that! Since it must allow authors to set certain conditions, and require users to pay into the maintenance costs (to understand that they are not the product) it should be called OpenFreeBook just to match the current post-truth vibe.
That said ... putting part of your soul into machine format so you can put it on on the big shared machine using your personal machine and expecting that only other really truly quintessentially proper personal machines receive it and those soulless other machines don't ... is strange.
...
If people want a walled garden (and yeah, sure, I sometimes want one too) then let's do that! Since it must allow authors to set certain conditions, and require users to pay into the maintenance costs (to understand that they are not the product) it should be called OpenFreeBook just to match the current post-truth vibe.