A Message To Craig Burton.....
craigburton.com
Frederick - Re: Too little too late? <Picture: blueArrow>
3/4/2002; 1:45:28 PM (reads: 3, responses: 0)
Craig:
Let's get to the bottom of things.
Novell is not a company. Novell is a community of individuals.
Period.
The "company" aspect simply provides legal cover for individuals operating in the community against outsiders seeking judgment claims and rights against those inside.
And as with every community either the individuals are proactively risking, serving, trusting, sharing and helping one another or they are reactively trying to avoid facing the truth behind selfishing helping and serving their own interests.
Novell has made a wonderful case study of the hidden costs of disfunctioning communities that are populated with individuals who have a hard time with trust, lack an understanding of the value of risk and therefore fail to receive and share the freedom and energy necessary to create and share anything of lasting value with the rest of the world.
Novell's vision has been bankrupt since early 1999 when they put the muzzle of limits and control on Eric Schmidt.
I say turn the whole business model upside down and turn the whole thing into ONE open, transparent service model. Give away eDirectory totally and allow it to become the infrastructure for these new, emerging Life Services Infrastructure platforms which will be used by individuals to repatriate their rights and control over their creative authorship of ALL data. And these rights and controls begin and end with the individual securing his or her own identity on a variety of platforms.
The technology of the future will be technology that supports, enables and serves this unfolding New World of individually empowered energy, service and freedom. Individuals are the only place to begin and end this discussion. Let the FREEDOM and energy of individuals populate the Directory in a process that has them repatriating their rights to controlling the data they create.
It's high time for individuals to exit these Wizard of Oz plantations of corporate, government and institutional claims which seek to define, lable, limit, restrict, own and control the flow of individual energy, light and Love in this world.
It's time to repatriate our rights of ownership over the data we create by saying "Click Bye Bye" to these data control models that irrationally claim to own me you and others. The ideas and energy that drive technology begins and ends in the individual mind through the conduit of choice . A New World of more individual freedom is the vision. And the passport to this New World is the empowered individual who begins to see and understand that when it comes to helping and serving others and making this world a better place for others, he/she is the Alpha and the Omega of the future.
I trust from where you are standing right now you see this vision and are fast heading down this path.
Peace.
Fred Smart |
