- From: Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:13:43 +0100
- To: Christine Perey <cperey@perey.com>
- Cc: 'Harry Halpin' <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 11:07 +0200, Christine Perey wrote: > 1. What new insights will the fact that a service has (or has not) > implemented A1 or A2 provide? I'm not Harry, but allow me to provide my answer to this question. A service that provides FOAF, OpenID, etc scores points in terms of interoperability/distributed architecture. In terms of open source software, it's not a question of whether the site is hosted on Apache or whatever, but what's important rather is the free availability of the actual site code. For example, identi.ca is powered by the GPLed laconi.ca software. That means that if I decided I no longer liked identi.ca's privacy policies, I could set up my own server running the same software and hopefully transfer my microblog over to my own server. Big win for interop and data portability. -- Toby Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
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