Again, just one word from me. We have existential proof in the form of a project that is sponsoring work with some free software people. It’s called Sandstorm. What it does is it flips the default. It makes it possible to think of the web like you install apps on your phone. By default, it’s secure, it’s sand-boxed. It can only run on the server you trust.

You still do the typing together, just like Google Doc, and I designed this spreadsheet with Dan Bricklin, called EtherCalc. It’s like Google Spreadsheet, but the difference is that it’s on a server that you trust, you control, and at any point that you can download everything. It’s called data portability, and then put it to the friend’s server. If your own computer has a hardware problem, you can migrate with no problem at all.

The point is that we changed the default. We flipped the default. Now with this way of doing things, we still go on coding, but now it’s secure and free by default. That’s my only point.

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