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Networking

Submission + - Canadians find traffic shaping reasonable (google.com)

gehrehmee writes: "A recent Canadian Press Harris-Decima poll suggests that "Sixty per cent of survey respondents said they found the practice reasonable as long as customers are treated fairly, while 22 per cent said Internet management is unreasonable regardless." A major Canadian internet and phone service provider Rogers, meanwhile, compared "person-to-person file-sharing to a car that parks in one lane of a busy highway at all times of the day or night, clogging the roadways for everyone unless someone takes action". Is there a lack of education about these issues, and the long term effects of traffic shaping on free communication? Or are net-neutrality advocates just out of touch?"
Software

Submission + - Public Bug Tracking and Open-source Policy (gnome.org)

Observer writes: Bugs in software are nothing new, but when they're discussed in the open, how do open source projects adapt policy? A major regression in the Gnome project's session manager has seen some major distributions choose to refuse to follow the update rather then drop a major feature. Between Gnome's public bug tracker those of distributions which released (and still distribute) the buggy version anyways, months of debate provide an interesting case-study in the way front-line users and developers interact for better or for worse. What lessons can be learned in release planning, bug triage, and marketing for a major open source project?
Microsoft

Submission + - Hotmail blocking Firefox users again? 2

gehrehmee writes: "As indicated on the mozilla support forum, Microsoft's recent upgrades to Hotmail's user interface have broken many Firefox users' ability to send or reply to any mail. Firefox seems up to the job though, because a simple user-agent switch gets it working again. Is this more anti-competetive malice or just simple incompetence? Either way it's putting users in a tough spot: Either execute some non-obvious technical workaround, or switch back to Internet Explorer."

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