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[X] English
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Speaker: So, yeah
Announcer: This talk will be on Technomonopolies and how social networks are really monopolies in your view right?
Speaker: Yep
A: And, so
S: Well not all social networks but I will get to that...
A: Yeah so the stage is yours Mike, thank you
S: Thanks. Um... Hi there, after some... after some minor technical difficulties, I am very happy to be talking to you. This is a priviledge for me. My name is Mike but most people in the technical communities and hacker communities call me "rysiek" for some reason or other. Lets not get into the reason.
I work at the Free and Open Source Software Foundation in Poland. It is an NGO that promotes free software and open source in different contexts. In educational contexts in business contexts, in any contexts. And I am particularly interested in anything that has to do with freedom of speech, with human rights in the digital era, in the digital world.
So, Technomonoplies. First of all, or "inb4." Before we get started I'm going to use some examples that are robably familiar to most of you. And I will have to do them fast. So they will be a little bit simplified, I apologize for that. But you have been warned.
Okay, so 'techno' is the simple part of this word. It is the part that didn't work for a few minutes right now. But what are 'monopolies'? I think that, you know, monopolies are quite... we all know what a monopoly is... right?
[points to slide]
That is basically the more or less the definition. You have either the only supplier of a product or service on a given market. Or there are some high barriers of entry to the market. Or there is no good substitute for a given product or service.
Lets go through that.
[highlights first bullet point]
That is obvious, right. For example, you know, where there is only For example, you know, where there is only one supplier of a product or a service that is a monopoly full stop. In the 1990s in Poland we had only one supplier, only one telephone company. It was called Telecomunska Polska and it was obviously a monopoly. That is no longer the case thanks to anti-monopoly laws and I know that this was also the case in many other countries and in many other markets.
[clicks to highlight second two bullet points]
So but what are these? What are 'high barriers of entry'? For example a high barrier of entry can be a patent system. When somebody offers a product or a service based on some patented technology, somebody else has to liscense the technology from this company or this person to be able to also provide this service or this... this product.
So this is a high barrier of entry. Right because, because the price for the, the price of the patent license an be very high for example, right?
What are, well what does it mean that there is 'no good substitute'? Lets just think about Microsoft Office binary... format five years ago. Right there was no good substitute for Microsoft Office as far as readng and writing those particular formats was concerned. Unfortunately... that was... the case, this was the only product that actually had this functionality however we might look at this particular product. So what users got was vendor lock-in in a box. They bought software and they were vendor locked because nobody else could actually interface with these... files.
[moves to 'Healthy Market / Mobile Network' Slide]
What is a 'Healthy Market'... on the other side, right? What is the Healthy Market, for example mobile networks, or moblie network operators. Well that is a more or less healthy market right, because you can choose. There well established standards, there is... you can keep contact with other people regardless of which network they use or even in which country they are, right. The prices might change a little bit but this is not prohibiting you from contacting these people within this particular service.
So you can freely and independently select both the provider and the device without worrying whether or not you will keep contact with the people that are using this particular provider or are using this particular kind of device, right. This is exactly, for example, this is exactly why Jovla Mobile [??] could enter the market right. Because there were standards, they could just drop their devices on the market and then you know, the... service providers didn't really care but couldn't stop it in any way.
[moves to 'Healthy Market / Email' Slide]
Okay, another example, also obvious, well that's email right. Also well established standards so anybody can write an email server or anybody can run an email server right. Everybody knows how..., well everybody can check how to do that and write their own or... set up their own server.
And again it's possible to keep contact regardless whether I'm using my own email server or my hackerspace's email server and somebody else here uses for example gmail or whatever mail... server right. This is irrelevant. I can select both the user agent and the service provider and I can... be more or less sure that I will be able to keep contact with anybody using this particular kind of service regardless of the provider and the user agent they are... using.
No a little bit of history. Web designers hold... you know grab something...
[moves to 'Healthy Market / Email' Slide and IE logo appears]
Yeah. Do we have any web designers here? Web developers here? Hands up.
[raises hand]
Yay, do you remember this beautiful... logo. You know, embrace extend explorer. Websites created for a particular browser 2006 try to make a website that works in different browsers good luck with that.
So there were barriers to selecting your browser freely. There were barriers for users. The user cannot
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