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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow--While I generally agree with the arguments Doctorow makes here about interoperability and copyright/DMCA overreach, he makes sweeping dismissals of legitimate counterarguments in largely unappealing ways. I get that this is a short book by a small publisher, but spending just a page or two on each of the counterarguments you're choosing to present doesn't let you tackle the best version of those arguments, it's an easy recipe for strawmanning, which is present here in spades. Sideways thumb.
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This is an important topic and the focus on interoperability is excellent. He repeats himself a lot though which irritated me.
Tl;dr: The con is monopolies and the way to seize the means of computation is by winning back interoperability rights.
Doctorow is a very readable expert on the topic of technology and security. While I did eventually stop reading “interoperability” as a real word, after taking a break, I came back to learn a lot about the fundamental ways tech is and isn’t different from other sectors and how that informs its problems and solutions.