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How to Save the Internet
An anonymous reader writes "An article up at the Harvard Business Review's website by Jonathan Zittrain, one of the founders of the Berkman Center, discusses how the desire to clamp down on Internet openness can be avoided. From the piece: 'Those who provide content and services over the Internet have lined up in favor of "network neutrality," by which ISPs would not be permitted to disfavor certain legitimate content that passes through their servers. Similarly, those who offer open APIs on the Internet ought to be application neutral, so all those who want to build on top of their interfaces can rely on certain basic functionality. Generative systems offer extraordinary benefits. As they go mainstream, the people using them can share some sense of the experimentalist spirit that drives them.'"
It is official; Netcraft now confirms: The Internet is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered internet community when IDC confirmed that internet market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that the internet has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. The internet is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *The internet faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for the internet because it is dying. Things are looking very bad for the internet. As many of us are already aware, the internet continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Google is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Google developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Google is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Internet leader Al Gore states that there are 7000 users of the internet. How many users of the internet are there? Let's see. The number of internet versus tin can phone posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 anus users. Internet posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of porn posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of cocaine. A recent article put the internet at about 80 percent of the porn market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 slashdot users. This is consistent with the number of scene Usenet posts.