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Net Neutrality (Yeah!), a new distributed wiki, and my current Clojure project

It is, IMHO, a very good thing that net neutrality now has the force of law behind it. The Internet is the most important artifact for sharing information ever and is worth protecting as a neutral platform. Even though there is a lot of value in walled gardens created by Google, Facebook, and Apple I still hope to see many more systems developed that support individual control of our own data and better support for privacy. I think that Ward Cunningham's new Federated Wiki (on github: github.com/fedwiki ) is a very interesting idea for combining local storage with federated sharing of content. Something to keep our eyes on! I have been working on a combined document repository and general research tool that is tailored to my own needs but I will also sell it as a low cost commercial product (or I might make a compiled version free with the source code available with a commercial license for inclusion in other products - I am not sure yet). I want a system where I can store PDF