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'''Worst cases''' are bad things that happen if we design or run this wrong. | '''Worst cases''' are bad things that happen if we design or run this wrong. | ||
We pick [[licenses]] and [[hardware]] and [[design]] and [[data]] in order to minimize the risk of these things happening. | We pick [[licenses]] and [[hardware]] and [[design]] and [[data]] in order to minimize the risk of these things happening. Therefore we must exhaustively list them before we make binding choices. The [[Consumerium Governance Organisation]] will have to devote a lot of time to expanding this list. | ||
Rather than edit a case, it's better to write a new one that is more general or more specific. Make the cases very specific or very general, but stick to things you think really can happen. If you think they can't happen, they are [[threats]], and document them anyway, since ''someone'' thinks they can happen. | |||
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Microsoft, Monsanto, oilcos, or other enemies create their own modified schema, AND modified software. The modified software works with and even EXPECTS the altered grammar, and now you have a fork. Each promoter of a new fork gets "friendly" content poured into the altered grammar that we can't get first, and (depending on content license and source) can't even copy or validate. The "new improved" [[Corporate Consumerium]] takes over with careful marketing of itself to retails. Since it serves the interests of retailers, and maybe pays them, it will be preferentially installed to use the [[hardware requirements|standard hardware]] deployed to those retailers by Consumerium. We get crowded out, like Linux has been crowded out. | |||
[[Consumerium]] simply doesn't work, and often clears purchases that are morally offensive to the customer, or just fails. Ultimately, it is ignored, and just gathers dust. Hardware acquired to run it is used for other purposes. Another good idea that failed. The reasons it might "not work" include at least: | |||
*bad data | |||
*buggy software | |||
*incompatible hardware | |||
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Microsoft, Monsanto, oilcos, or other enemies create their own modified schema, AND modified software. The modified software works with and even EXPECTS the altered grammar, and now you have a fork. Each promoter of a new fork gets "friendly" content poured into the altered grammar that we can't get first, and (depending on content license and source) can't even copy or validate. The "new improved" [[Corporate Consumerium]] takes over with careful marketing of itself to retails. These professionally-marketed alternative software turns the same green or red light, but, with different criteria. The idea that "you own the hardware you decide what software will run on it, not the customer" is heavily promoted to the [[point of sale]] venue owner (retailer). Advertising benefits are tossed in. Since it serves the interests of retailers, and maybe pays them, it will be preferentially installed to use the [[hardware requirements|standard hardware]] deployed to those retailers by Consumerium. We get crowded out, like Linux has been crowded out, and are used only in a few backwater places that the mainstream marketers ignore. Consumerium has maybe 2% of a market in [[moral purchasing]], and does all the hard work, but is not the source of innovation. | |||
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Revision as of 16:56, 22 June 2003
Worst cases are bad things that happen if we design or run this wrong. We pick licenses and hardware and design and data in order to minimize the risk of these things happening. Therefore we must exhaustively list them before we make binding choices. The Consumerium Governance Organisation will have to devote a lot of time to expanding this list.
Rather than edit a case, it's better to write a new one that is more general or more specific. Make the cases very specific or very general, but stick to things you think really can happen. If you think they can't happen, they are threats, and document them anyway, since someone thinks they can happen.
Consumerium simply doesn't work, and often clears purchases that are morally offensive to the customer, or just fails. Ultimately, it is ignored, and just gathers dust. Hardware acquired to run it is used for other purposes. Another good idea that failed. The reasons it might "not work" include at least:
- bad data
- buggy software
- incompatible hardware
Microsoft, Monsanto, oilcos, or other enemies create their own modified schema, AND modified software. The modified software works with and even EXPECTS the altered grammar, and now you have a fork. Each promoter of a new fork gets "friendly" content poured into the altered grammar that we can't get first, and (depending on content license and source) can't even copy or validate. The "new improved" Corporate Consumerium takes over with careful marketing of itself to retails. These professionally-marketed alternative software turns the same green or red light, but, with different criteria. The idea that "you own the hardware you decide what software will run on it, not the customer" is heavily promoted to the point of sale venue owner (retailer). Advertising benefits are tossed in. Since it serves the interests of retailers, and maybe pays them, it will be preferentially installed to use the standard hardware deployed to those retailers by Consumerium. We get crowded out, like Linux has been crowded out, and are used only in a few backwater places that the mainstream marketers ignore. Consumerium has maybe 2% of a market in moral purchasing, and does all the hard work, but is not the source of innovation.