TheMask - Slashdot User

Comment Just for information... (Score 1) 375

by TheMask on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @02:26PM (#27748615) Attached to: Cablevision To Offer 101 Mbps Down, No Caps

...in Portugal we already have two triple-play service providers offering 100Mbits download using fiber-to-home, although still not available everywhere.
The prices are quite reasonable (at least comparing to Cablevision's $99.99).
64.99 euros (around $85) for 100 channels, 100Mbps/10Mbps and phone.

Comment Does it make any sense? (Score 1) 753

by TheMask on Thursday October 23, 2008 @07:44AM (#25480231) Attached to: Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source

After I read the entire article, I couldn't help thinking: "What a jerk!"
Anyway, I'll give you my point of view, and it's really common sense.
1. With the rise of unemployment, people have more spare time to contribute (as stated)
2. When companies have no money, they tend to shift to cheaper solutions as in "open source" (been there, done that), thus increasing the number of contributors
3. Open source or "free" technology doesn't aim to replaced "paid", but simply to provide an alternative (they will co-exist)

Finally this paragraph is really intriguing:
"So how will today's brutal economic climate change the Web 2.0 "free" economy? It will result in the rise of online media businesses that reward their contributors with cash"

So he mixes two completely different concepts, weird "Web 2.0" and "free" (or open source).
Worst, he says in a scenario of crisis, businesses will have money to reward their contributors?!?

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Economic Crisis Will Eliminate Open Source 753

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @10:53AM from the why-so-gloomy dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The economic crisis will ultimately eliminate open source projects and the 'Web 2.0 free economy,' says Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur. Along with the economic downturn and record job loss, he says, we will see the elimination of projects including Wikipedia, CNN's iReport, and much of the blogosphere. Instead of users offering their services 'for free,' he says, we're about to see a 'sharp cultural shift in our attitude toward the economic value of our labor' and a rise of online media businesses that reward their contributors with cash. Companies that will survive, he says, include Hulu, iTunes, and Mahalo. 'The hungry and cold unemployed masses aren't going to continue giving away their intellectual labor on the Internet in the speculative hope that they might get some "back end" revenue,' says Keen."

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