You are naive. I am waiting for the day when Eurpean countries will receive a stream of immigrants of people out of the U.S., because they were discriminated within the U.S.
Just because you haven't lived through and in a country, where you have become victim of discrimination, doesn't mean it can't happen.
And the 1rst amendment won't protect you from that being happening. Or did the first amendment protect blacks from being enslaved ? Ever thought about something else being the reason, why slaves or other people in the past didn't leave the U.S. when they became victims of hate crimes ?
doesn't prevent people from hating. It just tries do limit uncontrolled broadcast of speech, which has proven to incite hate ACTS.
And that has become an issue since the internet came about. It is very easy to incite hate acts with hate speech world wide, just because of the ease of distribution and broadcast, not because of the content itself.
hmm, as long as public opinion corrects a perceived morally questionable war that might be so, but how about the opposite ?
If the public opinion is "heated up" to engage in a morally questionalbe war, would you still think that the rage road behaviour of the press's propaganda, broadcasted with the ease of the internet into any citizen's mind and living room, is still the best way to " control and influence" that war through free and open debate ?
The issue is that propaganda broadcasted over the open internet easily PREVENTS free and open debate, believe it or not.
It's a fallacy to believe that the openess of the internet automatically guarantees a balanced distribution of propaganda for and against a certain cause. TV broadcasts also don't automatically produce balanced distribution of ALL possible view points, just because they are free to do so.
You have to calculate that the average person has a preset mind of a lot of issues and looks only for the information which supports his views.
If you already have a mind-set of a racist or hater, this person will NOT search for balanced information and discussion, it will search for the most effective propaganda there is to support his views. He then will go and harrass anybody around, who doesn't think the same way as he does. If it doesn't find such propaganda, he will engage in producing it.
It's the person, who is consumed with hate, who runs over a discussion of peaceful people and chase them away. You can observe all over the internet that if hate- and flamewar is not moderated out by "a benevolent dictator", the forum usually is taken over by the loudest propaganda minister. Everybody else leaves disgusted.
I think you just forget how a man's brain and psyche works in all of it.
whining, because he has to scan his backpack. You are a scientist ? What do you have in your lab ?
(my most bitter sarcasm I am capable of starts here):
Some nice little pure biochemicals for referemce purposes by any chance ? Hey brother, can you spare a gram of Anthrax ? I kind of hate some guys, you would really do me a favour ? Makes my killing so much more efficient.
Hey, here is the deal. I tell you how many sleeper interns you guys do have at NIH ? Then you can make a lot of money accepting the award money, ok ? At the side I get a bit of spores and other such niceties. Done deal ?
(end of my most disgusting sarcasm I never wanted to write)
this is the second time I ordered back issues online and they don't even send out a receipt. Pretty lame... I hope I get the back issues, a receipt and confirmation of my order. Can't they set up a better "shop" ?
May be you should ask the question differently. If virtual child porn is legal, does it mean it is "a good and fair thing" worth to be protected by law ?
The problem I have with the geeks is that they stop thinking as soon as they can say something is legal or constitutional, as if all laws automagically represent a reasonable and just cause.
Well, as long as Red Hat is surrounded with that kind of friendly salespersons you seem to be, even software which is open and doesn't cost a penny can't make a buck.
Many posters spell his name according to their own mother language's way of spelling. They might post in English here, but don't change the spelling of his name into the English's spelling version.
Just don't be closed minded and insulting to others. What good is it for. Everybody knows who is addressed, independent of the spelling.
Well, it's not that easy. If I wouldn't violate copyrights, I would lead you to the German article of the magazine "Der Spiegel", which describes the life of Mohammed Atta, who lived in Germany for a long time as a very peaceful and charming student, promoting even harmony and co-existence among different religions among the student community at the Technical University in Hamburg-Harburg.
I have lived over twenty years in the U.S. and Hamburg is my hometown. I asked all of my nieces and nephews, if they believed they could have recognized that this friendly person could have been engaged in some meticulous preparation work to participate in the WTC attack. If Mohammed Atta would have been a student here in the U.S., it would have been exactly the American Muslim you would want to protect from retaliatory reactions of Americans, who are not capable to resolve their emotions.
It would be easy, if we just could through some magic device see into the soul of a terrorist. Unfortunately we can't. They hide very well behind a split personality, IMHO.
How do you sincerely think the law enforcement agencies could probably recognize a potential terrorist among the American Muslims or for that matter any other group of people (including their own American terrorists) in this country or overseas any more easily than everybody else ?
Of course I would always urge anyone to not live out their anger against people, who have not engaged in any hostile activities against them.
The only reason why I don't think that could have been the case is because these people came in the airplanes with KNIVES and cardbord cutters. No American based extremist would have come to the idea to hijack a plane with knives, IMHO, neither left-wing, nor right-wing. To me that's distinctly "a foreign way " to get things done.
I am just wondering what kind of action it would take to bring the internet down by terrorists ?
What is the most resilient mode of communication for the average person in Washington D.C. or NY in case of an attack ? Telephone or internet ?
Right. The good thing about the Metro Shelving is that you can put everything on casters. I have 3 heavy UPS, heavy very old printers, three CPUs etc. on there and rolled everything in a walk-in closet, put a hole through the wall, put a little desk against that wall from the other side and have just one monitor and keybord to manage all three over a KVM switch. No noise, no clutter and all the heavy stuff on casters. I hate to move the equipment around to clean up and I can sublet my place and lock the closet up and have my servers still running.
If I would redo it again I would play with a wireless network so that I can use a laptop from my balconi.
Seems to me that if you need a LOT of smaller companies, who make a SMALL profit to be able to hire a FEW developers.
What is happening is that VCs draw much money into very few supposedly LARGE companies in spe, who should make LARGE profits and still hire only a FEW developers, because they can overwork them. The smarter the engineer's and developer's ideas are, the more their ideas will minimize the development, implementation and maintenance costs. So basically their own inventiveness reduces costs for their own company they are working for, reduces costs for their customer's companies (to whom they want sell their idea) and all their brain work in the end is going to do is the reduction of costs for hiring developers and engineers. If that is not a tragic irony, I ask myself what is.
The architecture of the network itself seems to lead to few "large" companies. Very few "small" profit making companies are needed. OSS is highly desirable for non-for-profit organization therefore. The only way OSS can really be funded and developers hired en mass, is by support from the government. It's a shame that OSS is not used in all educational institutions.
The monopolization is a process, which the current laws don't prevent from happening adaequately.
If I were an engineer, I wouldn't care, if I work for a large company or a small one, as long as I would believe in the product I am developing and as long I am decently paid for by the company to provide for my family. That's what apparently is not happening for too many engineers and developers, because midsize and small companies can't pull through more than a few years before they have to sell themselves out to the big guys, who most probably won't hire all of the small company's engineers and developers.
I was always wondering if the funding mechanism for companies like SuSE was different than the process described in the article. Even if SuSE lacked money lately, they did seem to grow more organically out of themselves. I would be interested in understanding, if there is a major difference (legally or culturally) in how privately held companies are formed and funded in Germany vs. the U.S.
Needless to point out that I don't know what I am talking about, but I try to listen as best as I can.
which means the problem has nothing to do with OSS and freedom of choice, but with your constitutional laws. I don't say that my government to a certain extent is beyond the real control of the voting population. But it just seems that in the U.S. that is more a problem than in some other Western democracies. Otherwise I can't understand the passionate anti-government feelings which the U.S. population has against its own government. To me that's just a very confusing and amazing thing to watch.
I referred to Siemens programs to train people in system admin, SAP/R3 etc in Germany for free, if people are unemployed and need to be trained in new technologies, because their old skills become outdated.
They could extend those programs to more extensive training programs for Linux and OS e-commerce applications, like in partnership with RedHat and SuSe. I don't care who supports that, Siemens or IBM, as long as they do it for OSS and allow people to get trained for OSS applications as well.
I might just not understand under what kind of strangling conditions IBM and Siemens might support Linux just to promote their own proprietary software to run on Linux and therefore might not be interested to support massive training for OSS applications which might compete with their proprietory e-commerce applications. I just don't understand what is going on. I am not a guru/geek. I just think in order for OSS applications to win, massive training options at very affordable prices must be created.
My government does what I and the majority my fellow citizens want it to do, I don't know about yours. But if you are so just darn scared of your own government, then change the way you choose it, and change the way they make and impose their laws on to you in a way that they loose your trust of being treated fairly.
My government has permission from me to take the freedom to demand that Free or Open software should be used. How about that much of freedom ? Directly given to my government, by the people for the people.
is that my government finally starts supporting Linux Certification Programs via their unemployment benefits packages to (re)train adults.
It's a shame. Programming and Linux is used and offered in highschools, but adults who need retraining, reintegration can't get it at affordable prices.
Hopefully SuSe kicks some slow bureaucrats in their behinds to make them understand, hopefully IBM and Siemens help them with it.
And of course governments should demand to use GPL software and Linux in the public sector whereever it is possible. The UNDP should support it as well and hopefully will do so.
Why would nobody think of charging subscription fees to read, post and search technical mailing lists and its archives to generate income ?
I never understoodd why, if the source code is open, the technical support to explain how an open source code software package works to other users and developers, is a thing you can get for free. This is a free like in free beer thingy and it is not necessary to give that kind of technical support away for absolutely nothing.
A developer who donates code to an open source project might be willing to pay a little to the mailing list to show support for open source code in general (even though he already donates his work and his time).
All the others, the ones who just profit from the knowledge of the (in general) few real developers of the package, who just use the mailing list to learn and get advice for free, should pay a subscription to fee to support the overall chance for open source software to make money for the developers and the companies who hire those developers, IMHO. May be it is time that the community helps itself to generate income for open source projects in paying "a little bit" to the most helpful and used item by all users and developers, the technical support mailing lists of any open source project ?
I want to stay source code opened up as much as possible. I would pay a subscription fee to a technical mailing list, where developers help to explain their software's features, detect and fix their software's bugs and open up in which direction the software is going to be developed.
I think cvs and bugzilla is the best and most beneficial invention of all things I have seen so far, for all, users and developers alike. I would not hesitate to pay a subscription fee to be able to read, post and search a mailing list's archives.
Of course it has to be a low subscription fee that is affordable.
Is that not a way to generate income for a company like VALinux too ? Or would it be just peanuts ?
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and girl's daddy Guru too... plus big brother... better run fast or we all come after you and beat you up...
Guru and his girl sitting in the park talking about Free Software:
Girl: --- It's all about freedom, right ?
Guru: -- Wrong.
Girl: --- It's all about money, wrong ?
Guru: -- Right.
Girl: --- Sigh...It's all about freedom AND money...stupid !
Guru: -- No.
Girl: --- Yes, it is. - Freedom is never for free.
Guru: -- (no comment)
Girl: --- Hear me ? Freedom is never for free !
Guru: -- What ?.... err, hmm, yeah, I forgot.
Girl: --- (no comment)
Guru: -- Oh Baby, you are so right !
Girl: --- Yeah, Honey, now, are you finally get me this cute little Red Hat in the Box ?
Guru: -- Baby, I do everything for you, tomorrow I buy a little Red Hat in the Box.
Girl: --- Honey, ya know, ya are my hero, I just love those geeky guys who make with these cute Red Hats.
Guru: -- (no comment)
Girl: --- Honey, do me a favour, can you drop a tip too, with PayPal, to this SuperHeroGuruGeek Red Hat maker ?
Guru: -- Who is HE ?
Girl: --- Ya know the one who wrote this thingy there, ya know which one I mean.
Guru: -- Aaah, sure sweetheart.
Girl: --- BTW, there is a sale going on. If you buy three, you get one for free.
Guru: -- Okay, I buy six, one free for ya mamma too...
Girl: ---...(cuddling a bit closer)
Guru: --...(I better start writing free software if she goes on like that...)
Girl: ---...(Who said geeks can't learn a lesson, hmm ?)
If you don't like their actions or policies, then take your business elsewhere.
That argument would be valid if there were sufficient places to go elsewhere, but there aren't.
Secondly, technologies get created and infrastructures change, because of those technologies. If millions of people start working from their homes, because of the new possibilities created through that technology, you can't just sit quiet and watch how a couple of monopolies impede indepdendent creation of micro home-based businesses through the way their contracts impose usage restrictions on the bandwidth they provide, disallowing you to have static IPs and putting restrictions on who and what you can broadcast from your own servers.
If you want content censorship and broadcasting controls of privately produced content on home-based servers, it should not be the IPS and bandwidth providers to do so. This is an issue, which has to be controlled by the people through legislation.
I think it's completely unacceptable to allow any company to play God over the usage of a home-based server's content broadcasting capabilities.
If you want to prevent broadcasting of material offensive to the majority of people, who are capable of accessing that material, then this should be restricted by legislation, not by contracts imposed by monopolies on their customers nilly-willy. If technology isn't capable of enforcing such legislation, it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be such legislation, it just means that the geeks and gurus of this world haven't thought about a better technology that gives legislators the tools to enforce laws, which were accepted by the people in a democratic process.
I think it's a shame that ISPs can deny me the right to buy a static IP and any amount of bandwidth I want for whatever purpose. It's not their business how I use that bandwidth. It is the business of ALL the people, how I use my broadcasting capabilities, and therefore restrictions have to be decided by ALL the people, through our legislative bodies.
Can you even clearly and honestly distinguish between business and private usage of bandwidth and broadcasts ?
What if I want those DSL lines to learn system admin skills using my home-based servers as hands-on tools. Do I need to pay for a private or business DSL line ?
What if I am a student and want to run a site just as a means of demonstrating my "portfolio" of skills ? Do I have to pay for a private or business DSL line ? Why should the provider be in a situation to extort money for a higher priced line,though this is clearly not a business usage ?
What if I want to broadcast my book's content for free or for a fee and be my own online publisher ? If I broadcast my book for free, do I have to pay for a business DSL line and why ? As soon as I ask for a subscription to be able to access the next chapter of my book, does that count now as a business usage ? How about if I just offer a tip jar over PayPal and readers who like my book send me a tip? I get income from tips ? Does that justify to force me to buy business DSL line ?
What if I have an extende family of ca. 50 to hundred people around the world and want to offer them web-based services and use my home-based servers to serve them ? Why should I be forced to buy a business DSL line for such purpose ?
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You are naive. I am waiting for the day when Eurpean countries will receive a stream of immigrants of people out of the U.S., because they were discriminated within the U.S.
Just because you haven't lived through and in a country, where you have become victim of discrimination, doesn't mean it can't happen.
And the 1rst amendment won't protect you from that being happening. Or did the first amendment protect blacks from being enslaved ? Ever thought about something else being the reason, why slaves or other people in the past didn't leave the U.S. when they became victims of hate crimes ?
Why didn't the 1rst amendment help there ?
doesn't prevent people from hating. It just tries do limit uncontrolled broadcast of speech, which has proven to incite hate ACTS.
And that has become an issue since the internet came about. It is very easy to incite hate acts with hate speech world wide, just because of the ease of distribution and broadcast, not because of the content itself.
hmm, as long as public opinion corrects a perceived morally questionable war that might be so, but how about the opposite ?
If the public opinion is "heated up" to engage in a morally questionalbe war, would you still think that the rage road behaviour of the press's propaganda, broadcasted with the ease of the internet into any citizen's mind and living room, is still the best way to " control and influence" that war through free and open debate ?
The issue is that propaganda broadcasted over the open internet easily PREVENTS free and open debate, believe it or not.
It's a fallacy to believe that the openess of the internet automatically guarantees a balanced distribution of propaganda for and against a certain cause. TV broadcasts also don't automatically produce balanced distribution of ALL possible view points, just because they are free to do so.
You have to calculate that the average person has a preset mind of a lot of issues and looks only for the information which supports his views.
If you already have a mind-set of a racist or hater, this person will NOT search for balanced information and discussion, it will search for the most effective propaganda there is to support his views. He then will go and harrass anybody around, who doesn't think the same way as he does. If it doesn't find such propaganda, he will engage in producing it.
It's the person, who is consumed with hate, who runs over a discussion of peaceful people and chase them away. You can observe all over the internet that if hate- and flamewar is not moderated out by "a benevolent dictator", the forum usually is taken over by the loudest propaganda minister. Everybody else leaves disgusted.
I think you just forget how a man's brain and psyche works in all of it.
Why are you still here ?
What an idiotic sig and blunt lie.
whining, because he has to scan his backpack. You are a scientist ? What do you have in your lab ?
(my most bitter sarcasm I am capable of starts here):
Some nice little pure biochemicals for referemce purposes by any chance ? Hey brother, can you spare a gram of Anthrax ? I kind of hate some guys, you would really do me a favour ? Makes my killing so much more efficient.
Hey, here is the deal. I tell you how many sleeper interns you guys do have at NIH ? Then you can make a lot of money accepting the award money, ok ? At the side I get a bit of spores and other such niceties. Done deal ?
(end of my most disgusting sarcasm I never wanted to write)
I don't understand the community of Perl developers to be frank...but I am not a programmer, so may be someone will answer this in perlish English ?
this is the second time I ordered back issues online and they don't even send out a receipt. Pretty lame... I hope I get the back issues, a receipt and confirmation of my order. Can't they set up a better "shop" ?
May be you should ask the question differently. If virtual child porn is legal, does it mean it is "a good and fair thing" worth to be protected by law ?
The problem I have with the geeks is that they stop thinking as soon as they can say something is legal or constitutional, as if all laws automagically represent a reasonable and just cause.
Well, as long as Red Hat is surrounded with that kind of friendly salespersons you seem to be, even software which is open and doesn't cost a penny can't make a buck.
Time will tell who is deluged here by what.
Plonk
Many posters spell his name according to their own mother language's way of spelling. They might post in English here, but don't change the spelling of his name into the English's spelling version.
Just don't be closed minded and insulting to others. What good is it for. Everybody knows who is addressed, independent of the spelling.
Well, it's not that easy. If I wouldn't violate copyrights, I would lead you to the German article of the magazine "Der Spiegel", which describes the life of Mohammed Atta, who lived in Germany for a long time as a very peaceful and charming student, promoting even harmony and co-existence among different religions among the student community at the Technical University in Hamburg-Harburg.
I have lived over twenty years in the U.S. and Hamburg is my hometown. I asked all of my nieces and nephews, if they believed they could have recognized that this friendly person could have been engaged in some meticulous preparation work to participate in the WTC attack. If Mohammed Atta would have been a student here in the U.S., it would have been exactly the American Muslim you would want to protect from retaliatory reactions of Americans, who are not capable to resolve their emotions.
It would be easy, if we just could through some magic device see into the soul of a terrorist. Unfortunately we can't. They hide very well behind a split personality, IMHO.
How do you sincerely think the law enforcement agencies could probably recognize a potential terrorist among the American Muslims or for that matter any other group of people (including their own American terrorists) in this country or overseas any more easily than everybody else ?
Of course I would always urge anyone to not live out their anger against people, who have not engaged in any hostile activities against them.
The only reason why I don't think that could have been the case is because these people came in the airplanes with KNIVES and cardbord cutters. No American based extremist would have come to the idea to hijack a plane with knives, IMHO, neither left-wing, nor right-wing. To me that's distinctly "a foreign way " to get things done.
I am just wondering what kind of action it would take to bring the internet down by terrorists ?
What is the most resilient mode of communication for the average person in Washington D.C. or NY in case of an attack ? Telephone or internet ?
Right. The good thing about the Metro Shelving is that you can put everything on casters. I have 3 heavy UPS, heavy very old printers, three CPUs etc. on there and rolled everything in a walk-in closet, put a hole through the wall, put a little desk against that wall from the other side and have just one monitor and keybord to manage all three over a KVM switch. No noise, no clutter and all the heavy stuff on casters. I hate to move the equipment around to clean up and I can sublet my place and lock the closet up and have my servers still running.
If I would redo it again I would play with a wireless network so that I can use a laptop from my balconi.
finally someone honest ...
Seems to me that if you need a LOT of smaller companies, who make a SMALL profit to be able to hire a FEW developers.
What is happening is that VCs draw much money into very few supposedly LARGE companies in spe, who should make LARGE profits and still hire only a FEW developers, because they can overwork them. The smarter the engineer's and developer's ideas are, the more their ideas will minimize the development, implementation and maintenance costs. So basically their own inventiveness reduces costs for their own company they are working for, reduces costs for their customer's companies (to whom they want sell their idea) and all their brain work in the end is going to do is the reduction of costs for hiring developers and engineers. If that is not a tragic irony, I ask myself what is.
The architecture of the network itself seems to lead to few "large" companies. Very few "small" profit making companies are needed. OSS is highly desirable for non-for-profit organization therefore. The only way OSS can really be funded and developers hired en mass, is by support from the government. It's a shame that OSS is not used in all educational institutions.
The monopolization is a process, which the current laws don't prevent from happening adaequately.
If I were an engineer, I wouldn't care, if I work for a large company or a small one, as long as I would believe in the product I am developing and as long I am decently paid for by the company to provide for my family. That's what apparently is not happening for too many engineers and developers, because midsize and small companies can't pull through more than a few years before they have to sell themselves out to the big guys, who most probably won't hire all of the small company's engineers and developers.
I was always wondering if the funding mechanism for companies like SuSE was different than the process described in the article. Even if SuSE lacked money lately, they did seem to grow more organically out of themselves. I would be interested in understanding, if there is a major difference (legally or culturally) in how privately held companies are formed and funded in Germany vs. the U.S.
Needless to point out that I don't know what I am talking about, but I try to listen as best as I can.
which means the problem has nothing to do with OSS and freedom of choice, but with your constitutional laws. I don't say that my government to a certain extent is beyond the real control of the voting population. But it just seems that in the U.S. that is more a problem than in some other Western democracies. Otherwise I can't understand the passionate anti-government feelings which the U.S. population has against its own government. To me that's just a very confusing and amazing thing to watch.
I referred to Siemens programs to train people in system admin, SAP/R3 etc in Germany for free, if people are unemployed and need to be trained in new technologies, because their old skills become outdated.
They could extend those programs to more extensive training programs for Linux and OS e-commerce applications, like in partnership with RedHat and SuSe. I don't care who supports that, Siemens or IBM, as long as they do it for OSS and allow people to get trained for OSS applications as well.
I might just not understand under what kind of strangling conditions IBM and Siemens might support Linux just to promote their own proprietary software to run on Linux and therefore might not be interested to support massive training for OSS applications which might compete with their proprietory e-commerce applications. I just don't understand what is going on. I am not a guru/geek. I just think in order for OSS applications to win, massive training options at very affordable prices must be created.
My government does what I and the majority my fellow citizens want it to do, I don't know about yours. But if you are so just darn scared of your own government, then change the way you choose it, and change the way they make and impose their laws on to you in a way that they loose your trust of being treated fairly.
My government has permission from me to take the freedom to demand that Free or Open software should be used. How about that much of freedom ? Directly given to my government, by the people for the people.
is that my government finally starts supporting Linux Certification Programs via their unemployment benefits packages to (re)train adults.
It's a shame. Programming and Linux is used and offered in highschools, but adults who need retraining, reintegration can't get it at affordable prices.
Hopefully SuSe kicks some slow bureaucrats in their behinds to make them understand, hopefully IBM and Siemens help them with it.
And of course governments should demand to use GPL software and Linux in the public sector whereever it is possible. The UNDP should support it as well and hopefully will do so.
End of story.
Why would nobody think of charging subscription fees to read, post and search technical mailing lists and its archives to generate income ?
I never understoodd why, if the source code is open, the technical support to explain how an open source code software package works to other users and developers, is a thing you can get for free. This is a free like in free beer thingy and it is not necessary to give that kind of technical support away for absolutely nothing.
A developer who donates code to an open source project might be willing to pay a little to the mailing list to show support for open source code in general (even though he already donates his work and his time).
All the others, the ones who just profit from the knowledge of the (in general) few real developers of the package, who just use the mailing list to learn and get advice for free, should pay a subscription to fee to support the overall chance for open source software to make money for the developers and the companies who hire those developers, IMHO. May be it is time that the community helps itself to generate income for open source projects in paying "a little bit" to the most helpful and used item by all users and developers, the technical support mailing lists of any open source project ?
I want to stay source code opened up as much as possible. I would pay a subscription fee to a technical mailing list, where developers help to explain their software's features, detect and fix their software's bugs and open up in which direction the software is going to be developed.
I think cvs and bugzilla is the best and most beneficial invention of all things I have seen so far, for all, users and developers alike. I would not hesitate to pay a subscription fee to be able to read, post and search a mailing list's archives.
Of course it has to be a low subscription fee that is affordable.
Is that not a way to generate income for a company like VALinux too ? Or would it be just peanuts ?
and girl's daddy Guru too... plus big brother ... better run fast or we all come after you and beat you up...
Girl: --- It's all about freedom, right ? ...stupid ! .... err, hmm, yeah, I forgot. ...(cuddling a bit closer) ...(I better start writing free software if she goes on like that...) ...(Who said geeks can't learn a lesson, hmm ?)
Guru: -- Wrong.
Girl: --- It's all about money, wrong ?
Guru: -- Right.
Girl: --- Sigh...It's all about freedom AND money
Guru: -- No.
Girl: --- Yes, it is. - Freedom is never for free.
Guru: -- (no comment)
Girl: --- Hear me ? Freedom is never for free !
Guru: -- What ?
Girl: --- (no comment)
Guru: -- Oh Baby, you are so right !
Girl: --- Yeah, Honey, now, are you finally get me this cute little Red Hat in the Box ?
Guru: -- Baby, I do everything for you, tomorrow I buy a little Red Hat in the Box.
Girl: --- Honey, ya know, ya are my hero, I just love those geeky guys who make with these cute Red Hats.
Guru: -- (no comment)
Girl: --- Honey, do me a favour, can you drop a tip too, with PayPal, to this SuperHeroGuruGeek Red Hat maker ?
Guru: -- Who is HE ?
Girl: --- Ya know the one who wrote this thingy there, ya know which one I mean.
Guru: -- Aaah, sure sweetheart.
Girl: --- BTW, there is a sale going on. If you buy three, you get one for free.
Guru: -- Okay, I buy six, one free for ya mamma too...
Girl: ---
Guru: --
Girl: ---
That argument would be valid if there were sufficient places to go elsewhere, but there aren't.
Secondly, technologies get created and infrastructures change, because of those technologies. If millions of people start working from their homes, because of the new possibilities created through that technology, you can't just sit quiet and watch how a couple of monopolies impede indepdendent creation of micro home-based businesses through the way their contracts impose usage restrictions on the bandwidth they provide, disallowing you to have static IPs and putting restrictions on who and what you can broadcast from your own servers.
If you want content censorship and broadcasting controls of privately produced content on home-based servers, it should not be the IPS and bandwidth providers to do so. This is an issue, which has to be controlled by the people through legislation.
I think it's completely unacceptable to allow any company to play God over the usage of a home-based server's content broadcasting capabilities.
If you want to prevent broadcasting of material offensive to the majority of people, who are capable of accessing that material, then this should be restricted by legislation, not by contracts imposed by monopolies on their customers nilly-willy. If technology isn't capable of enforcing such legislation, it doesn't mean that there shouldn't be such legislation, it just means that the geeks and gurus of this world haven't thought about a better technology that gives legislators the tools to enforce laws, which were accepted by the people in a democratic process.
I think it's a shame that ISPs can deny me the right to buy a static IP and any amount of bandwidth I want for whatever purpose. It's not their business how I use that bandwidth. It is the business of ALL the people, how I use my broadcasting capabilities, and therefore restrictions have to be decided by ALL the people, through our legislative bodies. Can you even clearly and honestly distinguish between business and private usage of bandwidth and broadcasts ?
What if I want those DSL lines to learn system admin skills using my home-based servers as hands-on tools. Do I need to pay for a private or business DSL line ?
What if I am a student and want to run a site just as a means of demonstrating my "portfolio" of skills ? Do I have to pay for a private or business DSL line ? Why should the provider be in a situation to extort money for a higher priced line,though this is clearly not a business usage ?
What if I want to broadcast my book's content for free or for a fee and be my own online publisher ? If I broadcast my book for free, do I have to pay for a business DSL line and why ? As soon as I ask for a subscription to be able to access the next chapter of my book, does that count now as a business usage ? How about if I just offer a tip jar over PayPal and readers who like my book send me a tip? I get income from tips ? Does that justify to force me to buy business DSL line ?
What if I have an extende family of ca. 50 to hundred people around the world and want to offer them web-based services and use my home-based servers to serve them ? Why should I be forced to buy a business DSL line for such purpose ?