I agree with Rushkoff’s basic promise, however I think that a WebOS can never be as democratic as a real one, because small developers can not finance the infrastructural costs needed to create a “new place to go to” as easily. In fact if you think it through, a WebOS ultmately is the death of open source software. It’s a move away from democratizing the means of production to a world of cloud infrastructure where the coder as artist has to rely on a hoster, the new patron of the arts.
