RE: fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/116…
>[Standards] are negotiated between parties who accept that the shared space is more valuable than any individual advantage within it.
This crucial detail is why so-called "standards" that attempt to convey individual advantage tend to fail over time, because:
>Cooperation becomes a privilege extended by a third party, rather than a right held between equals.
Cooperation is the domain of equals; coercion, that of the privileged.
>Standards are how a society decides whether its own infrastructure should be owned or shared, whether its past should be accessible or licensed, whether its future should be open or gated.
Well stated. This whole post is worth a read.
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Attached: 1 image What We Owe Each Other, in Millimetres and Volts A standard is a public agreement about how things should fit together. Two words in that sentence carry the weight: public and agreement.LibreOffice (Fosstodon)
Preston Maness ☭
in reply to Preston Maness ☭ • • •And this bit in particular reminded me of Carl Sagan when he spoke about books in Cosmos:
>Continuity is how a society talks to itself across time. It is how we remain connected to what we have done and what has been done for us.
I can practically hear Sagan's voice:
>What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
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>[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
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>― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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