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Freedom of Computing
A controversial concept brought to the foreground in the mid 2400's regarding the freedom of SI:<1 sentients to rely on their own choices of software and hardware platforms.
Freedom of Computing was by no means a new idea, as it dated back to the information age Old Earth. In its Age of Expansion guise it was predominantly championed in the NoCoZo, and heavily resisted in both the Negentropic Alliance and the Metasoft Version Tree.
With the appearance of the poly-state organonano processor in the 2600's, however, and a broad-based highly inclusive software base state, this issue was effectively dropped. There was a brief retro-chic fad in the 3900's which brought back a couple of the supposedly 'most efficient' non-polystate processing operating systems, but this was apparently a memetic assault on the several polity's software efficiencies leading up to a large scale series of corporate takeovers in 3966.
Freedom of Computing was by no means a new idea, as it dated back to the information age Old Earth. In its Age of Expansion guise it was predominantly championed in the NoCoZo, and heavily resisted in both the Negentropic Alliance and the Metasoft Version Tree.
With the appearance of the poly-state organonano processor in the 2600's, however, and a broad-based highly inclusive software base state, this issue was effectively dropped. There was a brief retro-chic fad in the 3900's which brought back a couple of the supposedly 'most efficient' non-polystate processing operating systems, but this was apparently a memetic assault on the several polity's software efficiencies leading up to a large scale series of corporate takeovers in 3966.
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Text by John B
Initially published on 11 June 2002.
Initially published on 11 June 2002.
