Well... helping ANY OpenSource project is actually like helping ALL it's potential users. Be it PHP, Linux, GNU or whatever, if you're submitting bugs, contributing code, or just helping spread the word, Israel will ultimately benefit from it... and the USA, and Europe, and Lebanon, and China, etc.
Free Software is a worldwide terrorist movement: ultimately, we're helping everybody kill each other!:D
Let the US stick with all the IPv4 they want while the rest of the world just goes on using IPv6. Wouldn't that be funny?
As for the DNS I don't think there would be much trouble just using another TLD from outside the US to refer to US sites. Just like phone calls work. So "nasa.gov" would be "nasa.gov.usa" from outside the US, while US citizens would use "google.co.uk.nonusa" instead of plain "google.co.uk", who cares? Or rather, who would be losing the most?
I'd say it just wouldn't be the rest of the world.
Sure, there are millions of rocks "out there", but there are also millions of millions of millions of... void. Or at least of "not us".
Besides, a rock big enough to be of any meaning to us down here, would be quite visible just from down here; no need for a spaceborne telescope for that.
And... well, you know, we have comet strikes, supernova, little green aliens passing by... but you can't have it all;)
I think the people who should read it are those who will. The rest wouldn't benefit from it anyway; either they are successful and have no need for it, or they are lusers and will stay that way no matter what;)
Of course, software got cloned before the free software movement too, but there the clones cost a similar amount to the first product and so didn't slowly suck up the profit margins, essentially they competed fairly.
I think you may as well call that "progress". I mean, instead of ten clones "competing fairly" there will be a HUGE enhancement of the single software, or just three or four different ones. At least time won't be wasted repeating the same thing all over again.
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"not to make happy customers"
"without customers, there is no money"
That doesn't mean they have to be happy customers, just paying ones.
Well... helping ANY OpenSource project is actually like helping ALL it's potential users. Be it PHP, Linux, GNU or whatever, if you're submitting bugs, contributing code, or just helping spread the word, Israel will ultimately benefit from it... and the USA, and Europe, and Lebanon, and China, etc.
:D
Free Software is a worldwide terrorist movement: ultimately, we're helping everybody kill each other!
The answer is simple: IPv6 + TLD translation.
Let the US stick with all the IPv4 they want while the rest of the world just goes on using IPv6. Wouldn't that be funny?
As for the DNS I don't think there would be much trouble just using another TLD from outside the US to refer to US sites. Just like phone calls work. So "nasa.gov" would be "nasa.gov.usa" from outside the US, while US citizens would use "google.co.uk.nonusa" instead of plain "google.co.uk", who cares? Or rather, who would be losing the most?
I'd say it just wouldn't be the rest of the world.
I think we can live without it for a while.
;)
Sure, there are millions of rocks "out there", but there are also millions of millions of millions of... void. Or at least of "not us".
Besides, a rock big enough to be of any meaning to us down here, would be quite visible just from down here; no need for a spaceborne telescope for that.
And... well, you know, we have comet strikes, supernova, little green aliens passing by... but you can't have it all
I think the people who should read it are those who will. The rest wouldn't benefit from it anyway; either they are successful and have no need for it, or they are lusers and will stay that way no matter what ;)
Of course, software got cloned before the free software movement too, but there the clones cost a similar amount to the first product and so didn't slowly suck up the profit margins, essentially they competed fairly.
I think you may as well call that "progress". I mean, instead of ten clones "competing fairly" there will be a HUGE enhancement of the single software, or just three or four different ones. At least time won't be wasted repeating the same thing all over again.