On Defining Generativity, Openness, and Code Failure

[Over at the Concurring Opinions blog, I've posted my latest installment in the excellent online symposium they've been running on the themes set forth in Jonathan Zittrain's Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. My previous post is here.  My latest is "On Defining Generativity, Openness, and Code Failure," I've pasted the entire essay down below.]

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I've really enjoyed the back-and-forth in this symposium about the many issues raised in Jonathan Zittrain's Future of the Net, and I a...