Eben Moglen speaks at the 2007 O’Reilly Open Source Conference in a session titled ‘Licensing in the Web 2.0 Era’.
Eben Moglen believes that Web 2.0 is a bunch of ballyhoo by self promoters. No doubt that the Web has witnessed a revolution, but the real revolution has been the increasing distribution of processing capacity. Today, we have cheap storage. Ten years from now, people will have immensely cheap storage and processing capacity which will allow them to say no to the centralization of information on the servers of any powerful organization that intends to draw inferences from that data for private profit.
Moglen shares my sentiment that AJAX — especially the rampant abuse of such technology where it really isn’t necessary — is a security nightmare waiting to happen.
“The cross scripting security vulnerabilities of AJAX will suddenly make people as frightened of that technology as they rightly are of ActiveX…”