__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 02 October 2006 06:20 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Internet guru relishes NZ connections
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>>| He lives in California as chief scientist for Day Software, a Swiss-based
>>| software solutions company, and champions "open source" software which is
>>| free to the public.
>>|
>>| [...]
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>>| Seven years ago he co-founded and chaired the Apache Software Foundation,
>>| a charity which now offers more than 60 open source products and
>>| co-ordinates thousands of developers worldwide.
>>|
>>| "All of these developers around the world collaborate on the open
>>| source software out of enlightened self-interest.
>> `----
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>> http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10403888
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> The waka thing looks interesting, but we really need to get 3-mode
> networking out there in the wild and understood! It's really no use
> continuing to deploy yet more protocols and applications on a thoroughly
> broken stack, and the world cannot afford to keep throwing bandwidth at
> the net only to see most of it unused most of the time (how expensive is
> that?).
A much greater motivation for changing the protocols is the SPAM factor,
which is attributed to one faulty O/S which can be pwned and commandeered as
it already does. This gives a compelling reason to make the Web a far less
convenient place for interaction. Net neutrality might be part of it, but I
suspect that videos and torrents play a major role as well.
> The world is ready to consider what networks actually do, how they
> should be designed, and thus how client layers, up to the application
> layers, should be designed.
Slightly (well, very much) off-topic: my newsserver has been dropping
messages for several hours last night. If I don't reply to particular
messages, this might be because I cannot see them. It's really frustrating
when the happens...
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