unix_surrealism

I've recently got an idea (a paranoid one) that this

Microsoft was never a nice company. Even in the 1990s they were exercising their E.E.E (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish) strategy to beat federated and decentralized platforms and technologies.

is a popular wrong myth.

Because Sun was still alive. That Sun. Seeming as if half of its employees were geniuses. Seeming as if they had a plan for all the industry for a 100 years forward. Which was the original "corporation of good", almost nobody dares to treat it as something not sacred.

Sun's plan was extremely hierarchical, and definitely not decentralization\federation minded.

Saying that a technology is universal (or not) requires understanding of it down to elements.

Maybe the Internet itself is conceived the way that it will always lead to centralization and hierarchy, as a tool to change the society.

See how IRL democracy and interoperability and choice in various situations were and even are absolutely normal, in friend groups and often in community places, but on the Internet you come to a place and it has moderators, appointed by other moderators and administrators, and administrators are gods, and there's often no interoperability. And the longer it exists, the less interoperability there is.

Maybe we need a new global network, reimagined from ground zero with understanding of the risks. That is, a new common layer, where IP is in the Internet.