Very thorough survey here.

Well, no. In my (limited) experience, you'd use CLNP instead of IP if you were using OSI. And instead of IP addresses you would have NSAP addresses. It's a whole different world actually.

Can you please elaborate?

I'd mod you up, but I can't see the score, so you might as well be +5 by now

Mod parent up. Firefox is vastly preferable if you are trying to access the network behind a slow connection, like a GPRS cellphone for example. With Chrome you have to wait until everything is loaded before you are able to see the page, whereas Firefox does a decent job trying to render what it has loaded up to the present point.

So what kind government are we going to have? A federation, a confederation, something more loose? I'm sorry but you avoid answering the original post's argument, that without a real constitution we won't be able to have a real European Union. And (IMHO) this is not going to happen soon because a large percentage of Europeans doesn't want it. When everything used to go fine it was grudgingly acceptable, but now that the real difficulty is at hand we fail miserably.

Except Solaris, what else was under CDDL? Some other pieces of software were under the GPL if I remember correctly.

"not a Midas touch of Gold, but a Midas touch of death"

Pray tell us, whom they where copying from? Microsoft perhaps?

In the best /. tradition, I won't even bother to RTFA.

Since the loss of Sun Microsystems, which in retrospect seems to have been one the most open companies ever and with open source contributions surpassing those of almost any other organization's in the world, I have grown extremely suspicious of people dictating to me that this or that is evil, all in the name of "freedom". All those guys that had been bashing Sun must be really happy now that Oracle has taken over.

I can think of several companies that by /. standards can easily rival the "evilness" of Apple, but almost magically they seldom get mentioned as threats to net freedom. Until I see everyone else get their fair share of bashing and flames, I'll assume articles (and comments) of this class as astroturfing.

get a big cigar and practice saying "I love it when a plan comes together" while smoking it

mod parent up! XMPP (which basically boils down to the exchange of xml messages over a tcp connection
) makes a lot of sense in many areas where specialized protocols are currently used.

appeal to authority

1 trillion bits /sec, 1Tbps? Not so fast. At this point, optic fibers can carry multiple wavelengths, each carrying up to 100Gbits/sec. Mind you, 100Gbits are pretty recent, with implementations coming up from the major companies, like alcatel-lucent (plz correct me if there's already a commercial product). A more sane number is 40Gbits, 10Gbits or even 2.5Gbits. To multiplex and demultiplex multiple lambdas in a fiber you need expensive optical de/multiplexers, an amount of pairs of transponders equal to the number of your lambdas and possibly amplifiers/regenerators. Although it should be easier if we are talking about fibers a few meters long, the electronics and the optical components to handle these rates are neither easy nor cheap.

It would sound more reasonable to expect to have a single connection maxing out at 10Gbps, preferably a 10Gbit ethernet connection.

What we all need is a mod point reform, so that millions of slashdoters will be able to afford moderation!!