WhyOpenAutonomy

Why was OpenAutonomy created?

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In short, it is to ensure that we still have data privacy, the ability to use the software we want, and the freedom to innovate without limits.

A few years ago, it started to look as though the internet had changed from a tool for opening doors into a tool for closing them. The world was starting to resemble the "AOL Keyword" days of the early 90s, with companies shifting their focus to Facebook-centric pages instead of public web sites and it may continue further back to the mainframe-era such that you don't own data or software, you merely use your computer to access data you had to surrender to a company.

It seemed as though we shouldn't be forced to move all of our communication networks, data, and applications into a box controlled by a single company but we should be expanding outward, creating or discovering new ideas!

OpenAutonomy was built to facilitate that possibility: it allows us to make connections between different sites.