What is an open web?
ByThe following challenge was on my Firefox homepage today:
Creating an open web is at the heart of the Mozilla project. And you’re a part of that. As one of thousands of people in the project, you have worked tirelessly to keep the Internet open, participatory and full of life.
The question is: why? Why do you participate? Why does the open web matter so much to you?
As we work to grow the Mozilla community, we want to explain what you’re feeling to everyone — your neighbours, your co-workers, your grandparents. We want them to understand the open web.
I just shared my definition of what an Open Web means to me. Why don’t you share yours?
http://mozilla.org/open
#mozopen
Click read more to see my response
I’m a software architect, specializing in business web apps. Years ago, when the web was young, I attended a technical seminar at which the speaker spoke excitedly about how the web would change the world through freedom of information. It has. Knowledge is indeed power. Never before in human history has so much knowledge been available to many at so little cost. An open web means freedom from those who would control access to information. An open web can literally change and even save lives.
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