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Google is killing the open web

The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.

The efforts of tech giants to gain control of and enclose the commons for extractive purposes have been clear to anyone who has been following the history of the Internet for at least the last decade, and the adopted strategies are varied in technique as they are in success, from Embrace, Extend, Extinguish( EEE) to monopolization and lock-in. The Googler also omits to mention that both Google's and Apple's XSLT implementation (not Mozilla's, that developed their own) relies on a set of free-software libraries whose maintainer has recently undergone a bombardment of borderline abusive issue reports from the characteristically extractive corporate exploitation of FLOSS, with requests to provide professional services without actually paying for it in any way. With blogging common and distributed across multiple platforms, the possibility to aggregate information from disparate sources, and still see it presented as a regular web page, across browsers, without any need for scripting, in a time where implementations were slow and (thanks to Microsoft, intentionally) incompatible with each other, was seen as a clear win.

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