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BPL: The Internet's Fool's Gold
Joe Barr writes "One of the more fascinating tidbits of information I came across while researching this story on NewsForge about BPL, the fatally flawed wannabe-broadband-provider technology, was that at the very same time the FCC was downplaying the threat of the interference BPL creates, the FCC's very own test results were showing just the opposite."
Sounds like a serious threat to the backbone providers. Expect lawsuits
Talking to geeks is like eating jello with a chainsaw, interesting, but painful.
There have already been many lawsuits. Expect even more.
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That's the stupidest thing ever. That license basically says that if you release software under the GPL, and then someone uses your code and releases it under BPL, that the BPL overrides the GPL all the way to the beginning of the "GPL tree" and grants the BPL code's author full credit to all the infected GPL author's work if the BPL author wants credit...
No wonder it's the Bastard Public License! Christ, it infects worse than the GPL!
I think it's tongue in cheek though... but it sure reads legit. OMFG!!!!1111one
Hey, Bush's EPA, under ex-New Jersey governor Whitman, claimed the air around NYC did not exceed EPA safety thresholds for toxic chemicals. So people stayed around breathing it unprotected, including the heroes toiling in the WTC crater. But they were lying. After lies like that go unpunished, who can blame them for lying about something less explosive like RF interference?
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Somebody has to wire coax or fibre to your pole transformer. BPL is just from the pole transformer to the house. Who's going to do that long cable run?