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Bob Metcalfe on Open Source, IPv6, IETF
prostoalex writes "The inventor of Ethernet Bob Metcalfe is interviewed by AlwaysOn on current issues. Metcalfe is known for challenging commonly accepted wisdom and this time he's quite confrontational. On open source and operating systems: "If you look at Windows and Linux, both are based on 25-year-old technology. Windows is sort of a GUI version of the Mac's operating system, and Linux is of course Unix, which stems from 1968. These are both old clunkers. So the question is, Where are the new operating systems likely to come from?" On IPv6 adoption and IETF: "Back when you attended the IETF, you all looked down your noses at the ITU (or I guess it was called CCITT at the time)--the entrenched, corporately manipulated, corrupt, competent standards being embodied in IT. We were the IETF--the swashbuckling, institution-oriented, open people, the rebels. That's changed now. The Internet has arrived, and all of those people are now just like ITU: IETF has become the ITU.""
always on look off right now. /.'ed
"When they invent bitch slaps that can go through a monitor you better f'ing duck" --deft (253558)
The Internet has arrived, and all of those people are now just like ITU: IETF has become the ITU."
Not a big shock... about 15 years ago, the two power centers in BC Politics were the NDP and the Social Credit Party.. The left wing was in the NDP who had power at the time, and the Socreds had pretty much lost favour as the reigning right-wing party (( yeah that belies their name, but having been decades in power, the right wing had taken them over )). Then an upstart Liberal party maaged to worm their way into the leaders debate and caught fire, becomming the official opposition.
By the next election, the formeer Socred political machine had taken over the Liberal Party and kicked out it's leader. These are the people who now run the province.
Strange, when I looked at the results it looked to me like the Green and NDP managed to knock each other out [with a higher vote] than the L by running candidates in the same race in most key areas.
But I haven't lived in BC since 1989, so maybe the vote totals lie.
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I think I'm one of the few people who read your post and knew half of what you are talking about. As a resident in Vernon, BC I am doubly blessed to have witnessed our mayor's dismissal recently. Vive le politiqe de BC! (or whatever - you know none of us out here speak french well.)