Authena's Future

Google recently purchased blogger. Blogger derives its value from peoples' passions.

Think about the sum total of passion represented within all the Open Source CMS out there. And as Moore's law marches on, making audio and video-on-demand a reality, and Metcalfe's Law brings us better OSCMS each and every day, think about where all the passion will be expressed in a few years.

Could Open Source CMS be the killer-app of the Open Source world? The way I see it, as more bands, writers, artists, photographers, and teachers use postnuke, gallery, xoops, envolution, cafelog, and oscommerce to join the semantic web, more and more servers will run Linux.

Couple this with the open RDF/RSS1.0 standards and the Dublin Core and CC Licenses, and suddenly it seems the Open Source world has a good chance of establishling the common universal standards for archiving content and managing digital rights.

This will grant Creators a great freedom to define how their content is used, in line with the Consitution's original spirit.