The Phillipines is a democracy in the same sense that Singapore is a democracy - it isn't. He with the most money (ie: the most politicians on the payroll) makes the rules.
Bottom line is, in a communist state, the government will do whatever it is paid to do. IMHO, this isn't indicative of what could/should/would happen in the democratic world...
That said, here in.au, telcos (people providing voice telephony) are required to provide holes in their system for 'The Government' to tap and listen to all conversations at will. (You thought the GSM prone system was encrypted and secure? It's not here!). Letting VoIP go wild has the potential to intefere with The Government's self-assigned right to listen in on everything, so I can understand why they'd be all-for regulation.
In our company (global bank) we have a choice of stinkpad, stinkpad, or stinkpad when it comes to having a laptop. They're pretty much universially hated, and as everyone knows, IBM hardware isn't 'IBM compatible'.
We also have to run the corporate cludge of WinNT on our stinkpads. Uglier.
I run FreeBSD on mine in a VMWare virtual machine. It's not fast enough to be useable, but my job being the firewall guy, sometimes I just need an OS I can control properly (ie: not NT) to to kinky network stuff for debugging, etc. It works well enough to suit my requirements.
My boss, stirrer that he is, runs dead rat linux on his stinkpad, then runs the corporate NT cludge in a VMware virtual machine on the redhat. The WinNT support weenies couldn't tell he was running anything other than NT when he asked them to take a look
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Bottom line is, in a communist state, the government will do whatever it is paid to do. IMHO, this isn't indicative of what could/should/would happen in the democratic world...
That said, here in .au, telcos (people providing voice telephony) are required to provide holes in their system for 'The Government' to tap and listen to all conversations at will. (You thought the GSM prone system was encrypted and secure? It's not here!). Letting VoIP go wild has the potential to intefere with The Government's self-assigned right to listen in on everything, so I can understand why they'd be all-for regulation.
We also have to run the corporate cludge of WinNT on our stinkpads. Uglier.
I run FreeBSD on mine in a VMWare virtual machine. It's not fast enough to be useable, but my job being the firewall guy, sometimes I just need an OS I can control properly (ie: not NT) to to kinky network stuff for debugging, etc. It works well enough to suit my requirements.
My boss, stirrer that he is, runs dead rat linux on his stinkpad, then runs the corporate NT cludge in a VMware virtual machine on the redhat. The WinNT support weenies couldn't tell he was running anything other than NT when he asked them to take a look