Strawman much?
Network neutrality isn't about treating every packet equally. It's about requiring routing policies which are neutral as to the provenance of a packet: not allowing any third party to derive competitive advantage from the routing policy.
It's fine to drop DDOSes, prioritize VoIP, delay BitTorrent, as long as this is done without regard for whose traffic it is: prioritizing ACME's VoIP traffic over Yododyne's is not fine.
It isn't necessary to frame network neutrality as a free speech issue: it's more to do with antitrust law, IMO. The mere fact that a botnet wishes to send me packets doesn't mean that I am required to receive them. It is fine for a network operator to drop malicious traffic, either upon the recipient's request, or on its own initiative.
12:48 "So how to help? Well you can write free software." So how would you go about feeding yourself while you write a free video game? Video games can't rely on support to the same extent as software critical to a business.
Get a job? You don't have an automatic right to be paid for making video games.
If you really feel that you couldn't make a video game whilst also doing other paid work, and you can convince other people that you can make a game they'd like to play, then some of those people will pay you to write it. If you doubt that, Chris Roberts has $52M of evidence to the contrary. 3% of Kickstarter games projects get $100k or more. That's not going to fund a "AAA" development process, but it'd pay your living costs for 3 or 4 years.
And sure, only 3% of the people who apply get funded to this extent, but see above: it's a privilege, not a right, to be paid for what you want to do.
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Strawman much? Network neutrality isn't about treating every packet equally. It's about requiring routing policies which are neutral as to the provenance of a packet: not allowing any third party to derive competitive advantage from the routing policy. It's fine to drop DDOSes, prioritize VoIP, delay BitTorrent, as long as this is done without regard for whose traffic it is: prioritizing ACME's VoIP traffic over Yododyne's is not fine. It isn't necessary to frame network neutrality as a free speech issue: it's more to do with antitrust law, IMO. The mere fact that a botnet wishes to send me packets doesn't mean that I am required to receive them. It is fine for a network operator to drop malicious traffic, either upon the recipient's request, or on its own initiative.
In October 2009, just a few months after he coined the term "NoSQL", Eric Evans made a blog post saying he regrets that the name gives the impression that NoSQL is against relational databases and that people should think of it as being Not Only SQL. Somebody's history is revisionist, but I don't think it's fluffy99's.
12:48 "So how to help? Well you can write free software." So how would you go about feeding yourself while you write a free video game? Video games can't rely on support to the same extent as software critical to a business.
Get a job? You don't have an automatic right to be paid for making video games.
If you really feel that you couldn't make a video game whilst also doing other paid work, and you can convince other people that you can make a game they'd like to play, then some of those people will pay you to write it. If you doubt that, Chris Roberts has $52M of evidence to the contrary. 3% of Kickstarter games projects get $100k or more. That's not going to fund a "AAA" development process, but it'd pay your living costs for 3 or 4 years. And sure, only 3% of the people who apply get funded to this extent, but see above: it's a privilege, not a right, to be paid for what you want to do.