Risk is that people vote based on whether they like the subject or not, not based on how important it is.
I.e:
"FSF gets donation" - gets plus because people like it
"Microsoft sues 10 major Linux vendors" - very important but gets minus because minus is associated with bad things
Yes, it lives about 60 000 people in Karlstad. The municipal fibre net is really cool.
Actually, many cities are building such MAN:s to different extents. Usually they connect to several different WAN:s, like Telia, IP-Only and Sunet. Thereby the municipal company can resell IP transit though the "last mile" and the customer only buyes from the WAN providers.
I understand the point they're trying to make: that a high speed connection that enables the kinds of things such bandwidth allows is technically feasible to a home. But the problem is the same one we've always had - namely, the "last mile" - and this does nothing to solve that in the least.
I think this problem is now largely solved. This system uses a standard fibre-to-the house installation provided by the municipal-owned Karlstads Stadsnät (Karlstad City Network). Such connections are installed in hundred (thousands?) of houses and apartments across the town. Currently they are just used for up to 1 Gb/s, but this shows the network is future-safe for the next, say...40 years?
And, yes, I live i Karlstad, and have many friends who use it at speeds up to 100 Mb/s. Myself, I live a bit off so I'm stuck with a 8 Mb/s DSL.
You make a misstake here. This don't have anything to do with copyright laws. As you may know, hosting a torrent tracker in Sweden is legal since you are not hosting any copyrighted material, only linking to it. That linking to copyrighted content is legal has been firmly established by Swedish courts.
However, the law about child porn is different. It is significantly more inclusive, it also makes it illegal to assist spreading of child porn, even if you are not owning or hosting it yourself (Penal Colde, chapter 16 10.2). It has not been tried in court, but seems very likely that running a torrent tracker with child porn would constitute a crime.
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Risk is that people vote based on whether they like the subject or not, not based on how important it is. I.e: "FSF gets donation" - gets plus because people like it "Microsoft sues 10 major Linux vendors" - very important but gets minus because minus is associated with bad things
Actually, many cities are building such MAN:s to different extents. Usually they connect to several different WAN:s, like Telia, IP-Only and Sunet. Thereby the municipal company can resell IP transit though the "last mile" and the customer only buyes from the WAN providers.
And, yes, I live i Karlstad, and have many friends who use it at speeds up to 100 Mb/s. Myself, I live a bit off so I'm stuck with a 8 Mb/s DSL.
See http://www.stadsnat.karlstad.se/
This is already true for OpenOffice, it's code is owned by Sun Microsystems. Contributors must transfer their copyright to Sun, if I remember right.
Apache code is owned by the respective contributors, I belive. So it can't happend to Apache.
You make a misstake here. This don't have anything to do with copyright laws. As you may know, hosting a torrent tracker in Sweden is legal since you are not hosting any copyrighted material, only linking to it. That linking to copyrighted content is legal has been firmly established by Swedish courts.
However, the law about child porn is different. It is significantly more inclusive, it also makes it illegal to assist spreading of child porn, even if you are not owning or hosting it yourself (Penal Colde, chapter 16 10.2). It has not been tried in court, but seems very likely that running a torrent tracker with child porn would constitute a crime.