{"id":836,"date":"2006-11-13T07:26:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2006-11-13T07:26:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T07:26:55","slug":"the_ethics_of_web_applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/11\/13\/the_ethics_of_web_applications\/","title":{"rendered":"the ethics of web applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Tejeda, a talented web developer based here in Brooklyn who has been working with us of late, has a thought-provoking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nailchipper.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/12\/implications-of-the-web-on-free-and-open-source-licenses\/\">post<\/a> on the need for a new software licensing paradigm for web-based applications:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When open source licenses were developed, we thought of software as something that processed local and isolated data, or sometimes data in a limited network. The ability to access or process that data depended on the ability to have the software installed on your machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now more and more software is moving from local machines to the web, and with it an ever-increasing stockpile of our personal data and intellectual property (think webmail, free blog hosting like Blogger, MySpace and other social networking sites, and media-sharing sites like Flickr or YouTube). The question becomes: if software is no longer a tool that you install but rather a place to which you upload yourself, how is your <em>self<\/em> going to be protected? What should be the rules of this game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eddie Tejeda, a talented web developer based here in Brooklyn who has been working with us of late, has a thought-provoking post on the need for a new software licensing paradigm for web-based applications: When open source licenses were developed, we thought of software as something that processed local and isolated data, or sometimes data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,1365,1516,1736,1739],"tags":[2912],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-opensource","category-privacy","category-social_software","category-software","tag-software-opensource-privacy-social_software-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}