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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow

sebprovencher's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

3.5

nellum's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

4.0

linzomatic's review against another edition

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funny hopeful informative fast-paced

4.0

neilsarver's review against another edition

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challenging hopeful informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5

tuesday_evening's review against another edition

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funny hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

4.75

drs's review against another edition

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informative inspiring fast-paced

3.5

This is an important topic and the focus on interoperability is excellent. He repeats himself a lot though which irritated me.

dabow's review against another edition

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4.0

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. 

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I get the message, but I'm not sure I needed a full book of it.

paweljw's review against another edition

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informative fast-paced

3.0

witchboy's review against another edition

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informative inspiring fast-paced

4.5