” The next generation of Internet entrepreneurs will be people who understand this. They’ll be working to provide unreliable services that work in concert with other unreliable services to provide a service that works on average, but not predictably at any given moment. They’ll challenge the received wisdom that customers are hothouse flowers, expensive to acquire and prone to wilting at the first sign of trouble. These entrepreneurs will build services that are so compelling that they’ll be indispensable, worth using even if the service flakes out when you want it the most.”
“It’s possible to be an ardent supporter of open source development and not be a fan of copyleft and the General Public License. In this article the authors — software developers — relate how they came to embrace copyleft, became disillusioned with its limitations, and consequently turned away from it.”
as if any of my family needed further proof that i’m a superdork.
i’m in grand rapids, michigan visiting relatives for the holidays and this year i thought i’d do something special for myself. yes, that’s right – i brought along my 802.11 access point, so that this year i can enjoy the in-laws’ big screen tv, eat all their junk food >and< surf the internet, untethered.
just add eggnog and you’ve got all the ingredients for the perfect holiday season.
“THE WIRELESS STRATEGIES to stimulate the adoption of mobile data among enterprises that were hatched in the boardrooms of major telecommunications carriers in 2001 are likely to take hold in 2002.
Chief among those strategies will be a move by carriers like Sprint and VoiceStream — and possibly AT&T Wireless — to offer an alternative to their current 3G (third-generation) plans via low-cost, high-performance access to data over Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b/a) solutions.”
unfortunately, given their track record for billing for bandwidth and data services, i’ll also predict that the carriers will charge an outrageous premium and throw in really crappy customer service just for kicks.
“In the spirit of open source, we are attempting to establish a community in which information will be freely exchanged, so that we may further the understanding of open source and its implications outside the realm of software development. We invite researchers to post their papers on open source and free software here, and to add themselves to the research directory, so that our community can become steadily larger and more comprehensive.”
contains some absolutely right-on quotes from roxane googin who is an iconoclast and a smarty:
“”The goodness of the new network on one hand is a nightmare economically on the other. It is a paradox. And just like oil, society is going to benefit the most if bandwidth is the cheapest. But if bandwidth is so cheap, no one is going to be there to build the bandwidth. So what I saw happening is that the cat had been let out of the bag, the genie was out of the bottle, and people were building these networks and we were headed for this huge train wreck whereby capital would start pulling away from this industry once they realized that this was going to happen.”