Jack Valenti one of the main proponents of the DMCA. The RIAA is also the group who sued 2600.com for publishing a link! to the DMCA source code. Of course they want this kind of control over movie data. Profit is the RIAA's main motivation, not liberty issues such as "fair use".
I think that you need to take a look at all of the great GPL projects (at gnu.org or freshmeat.net). Many of these projects have no corporate affiliation and are just groups of people interested in helping other people.
Another large source of funding for free software (Stallman doesn't like the term "open source") or open source is the US government. Many large scientific software projects are at least open source. The DOE funds programs like Globus.org, CDAT and Vis5d. Also, most large scientific modeling projects are open source.
Isn't the FCC going to frown on this sort of thing? 802.11b uses 2.4-GHz band which is unlicensed by the FCC. If people start using this band in ways unintended, regulation will probably be necessary.:(
Kind of like when you were a kid and got some $20 KMart walkie-talkies...
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Jack Valenti one of the main proponents of the DMCA. The RIAA is also the group who sued 2600.com for publishing a link! to the DMCA source code. Of course they want this kind of control over movie data. Profit is the RIAA's main motivation, not liberty issues such as "fair use".
I think that you need to take a look at all of the great GPL projects (at gnu.org or freshmeat.net). Many of these projects have no corporate affiliation and are just groups of people interested in helping other people.
Another large source of funding for free software (Stallman doesn't like the term "open source") or open source is the US government. Many large scientific software projects are at least open source. The DOE funds programs like Globus.org, CDAT and Vis5d. Also, most large scientific modeling projects are open source.
Isn't the FCC going to frown on this sort of thing? 802.11b uses 2.4-GHz band which is unlicensed by the FCC. If people start using this band in ways unintended, regulation will probably be necessary. :(
Kind of like when you were a kid and got some $20 KMart walkie-talkies...
hehe, lame
I don't think that the "server" he is refering to in this article is a single processor webserver.
He is talking about a SMP server which operates very differently and could be potentially under a lot more stress...