There’s a consensus emerging among my friends Brough Turner, Bill St. Arnaud and Martin Geddes, that Network Neutrality by regulation is not practical. Each has their own reasons, but the conclusions converge inescapably with mine — given current industry structure, the incentives are all wrong. Vint Cerf’s fervent wish (hey, mine too, were it possible!) for a “lightweight, enforceable Network Neutrality rule” is a pipe dream. Any such rule I could think up would put today’s carriers in an untenable, self-competitive situation.
Daily Archives: November 29, 2005
The Power of the Purse
Fara Warner is author of “the Power of the Purse.” She says companies have learned that there’s more to marketing to women than just adding pink.
Portland: Open Source Central?
Elizabeth Armstrong Moore. Consider the following:
- Companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel have developed their own open-source labs here.
- Linus Torvalds, author of Linux, the first mainstream open-source operating system, moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to work at the Open Source Development Lab in Portland.
- In mid-October the city hosted the first Government Open Source Conference, a gathering for state and municipal technology managers interested in using open-source software in the public sector.
- Most recently, Oregon Gov. Theodore Kulongoski announced a $350,000 contribution from Google to develop open-source software, hardware, and curricula at Oregon State University, which boasts an Open Source Lab, and Portland State University. Portland’s standing as a hub for open-source development is not lost on the governor, who is eager to bring even more jobs and investment to what he calls a “burgeoning open technology cluster.”
Mayor Dave’s Schedule
Jason Joyce takes a humorous look at Mayor Dave’s weekly schedule.