links for 2010-11-24
Thursday 25 November 2010-
“# The principle of universality allows the Web to work no matter what hardware, software, network connection or language you use and to handle information of all types and qualities. This principle guides Web technology design.
# Technical standards that are open and royalty-free allow people to create applications without anyone’s permission or having to pay. Patents, and Web services that do not use the common URIs for addresses, limit innovation.
# Threats to the Internet, such as companies or governments that interfere with or snoop on Internet traffic, compromise basic human network rights.
# Web applications, linked data and other future Web technologies will flourish only if we protect the medium’s basic principles.[…]” -
(tags: technology touchscreen)