Comment It's a dispute onr Content delivery. (Score -1) 322
Don't let anyone fool you that it's about limited resources in a capitalistic availability. People get what they pay for, yet you have a phone network being throttled by network service technicians to limit how quick the technology agresses to perfection just so they can collect a more fine unit of currency in every change they make to the underlying Content delivery in their network.
They want to sell their software, but selling it too fast to people that payed more than others would make their technology look dire and unproven.
They want to sell their revision of software, but Open Source platforms have already skipped that delapidated development model by re-implementing what is already written.
They want to own all the rights to their software, but let's not forget that the network is not the same as the Administration that itself also bought rights to utilize that amount of network and conditionaly grant as a carrier for whomever subscribes to their accounting.
They want to control what hardware uses their accounting, regardless of the network capabilities just so they can guaruntee the use of their sold consoles will be obsolete and well-used that the next underlying technology of their network would obsolete the prior one in some extent of operation.
They want, want, want, and we don't need. A NEO OpenMoko FreeRunner PDA/Phone, a Motorola A1200 or Symbol MC7xxx/MC9xxx are perfect examples of equipment that have little tying them down to the network that these carriers hold ransom. Consider something more prevalent in theory as a Sony MYLO to a WIFI hub on a mountain, or even better a console that actually modulated a Chat room with a sleek shorthand communications protocol to a distant operator/moderator on a channel hosted on a mountain top. Does the network need to be proprietary than off-the-shelf components in the natural world of tools, or do the tools need to be proprietary to an open network?
I await the day that DARPA realizes that the people create their own redunant network of peers upon a natural layer that can't be shutdown by even the P-Resident of the Ournighted Straits of Mymerica over in the Tower of Washishington District of Criminals that like to round-up my account airtime units despite using less than 30 seconds in a call and there being a decimal point only utilized by text messages as it seems.