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Why Closed Platforms Might Not Be So Bad This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

  • Sunday, December 6, 2009

Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain cites Amazon's questionable Kindle behavior as a danger of closed platforms, but what's ethical in a web-enabled world is yet to be decided.

This week at the Supernova conference in San Francisco, Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain continued his continued his summer crusade against closed platforms in the cloud, this time calling out Amazon for its earlier-2009 Kindle redos. And although his loose definition of cloud computing might annoy some, Zittrain’s comments are nonetheless relevant in the space because Amazon’s reactions to copyright claims might foretell how cloud providers, or any platform operators, approach similar situations. Before we crucify Amazon [...]

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