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Cindy Cohn (executive director, Electronic Frontier Foundation) recalls how encryption was once classified along with munitions in the US, as well as her experience in successfully challenging such federal restrictions - an effort that continues today against legal blockers to encryption, interoperability, and reverse-engineering. "We've become so worshipping of this platform model that we're really locking out the ways that you continue to innovate in this world," she says. "I think what we need to do is to make [Big Tech giants] not so giant - make them a node on our giant distributed world."

Jim Zemlin (executive director, Linux Foundation) explains how the Linux kernel is the basis for a variety of open-source operating systems (e.g., Android and Chrome), which together power virtually all server-side software while dominating supercomputers and smartphones alike. He also discusses how entrepreneurs can disrupt Big Tech and still make money doing it while being open and working cooperatively. "Our organization," he says, "sees billions of dollars in market cap made through startups that base a new company on an interesting, new open-source project."

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