November 20, 2003
WIRED: Fiber to the People.
Lawrence Lessig. If a traditional network provider owned an advanced fiber network in a particular area, that network provider, acting rationally, would charge customers a monopoly price, or restrict service to get its monopoly benefit. But if the customer owned the network, then the customer could get the same access at a much lower price and be free of use restrictions.
Bob Frankston: The end is nigh again?
The key to the success of the PC and the Internet was that they made it OK to make disruptive mistakes and thus you could experiment and those experiments that worked were preserved and formed the basis for the next experiments.
InfoWorld: What's holding software back?
Jon Udell. It's not the rate of advance that worries me so much as the method of propulsion. The arc of software progress is defined not by increasing speed or capacity, but by the growing complexity of the data, events, messages, and relationships flowing through software systems.
News.Com: AT&T sues eBay, PayPal over patent.
AT&T on Thursday filed suit against eBay and PayPal, alleging patent infringement--the latest skirmish in the escalating Web patent wars. The suit, filed in federal district court in Delaware, claims that eBay and PayPal's online payment systems infringe on AT&T patent No. 5,329,589, "Mediation of transactions by a communications system."
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