Comment Re:Easy solution? (Score 1) 124
What Jim and the bufferbloat.net's group of volunteers have accomplished in a year - on nearly no money - boggles my mind.
Today's commentary on slashdot is a hundred times more clueful than it was last year - and a few days back Byte Queue Limits went into linux's net-next tree, which fixes much of the bloat problems that exist at the ethernet driver layer.
What has been discussed as 'Time in Queue' limits in the higher level schedulers is still awaiting a clean way to avoid layer violations. I've been too distracted by the BQL merge to pursue that next phase of fixes.
What we could have done this year with *some money* - nowhere near the amounts you describe above! - could have been amazing, and as for the next year, well, who knows? It is going to take many man-years worth of effort to make the internet responsive again.
And even with that said, to have harnessed the powers of hundreds first, now thousands, of talented minds, to help solve the bufferbloat problem - has been a far more effective - and wonderful! thing than all the money in the world.