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Comment Re:WTF (Score 2, Insightful) 709

Disagree. Government agencies are not what I consider responsive to voting populace. I'd prefer limited government interaction regarding how broadband is commercially available to me. With one exception, antitrust regulation, which is regulated by the FTC rather than the FCC. I feel the FTC should compel cable companies to open use of their infrastructure to competing companies at reasonable operating rates if they can be defined as monopolies. This would allow you to actually vote the proper way - with your wallet. If multiple companies could compete to offer you broadband, and Comcast decided to limit your traffic, you can vote by switching to one who doesn't. If that company allowed P2P or other services that clog the tubes, then Comcast will bill them for their higher usage and you'd in turn be charged more for your outrageous consumption. In the end, I think what's fundamental is that we need to be prepared to pay for what we use as these tubes can only carry finite amounts of data, and with scarcity, you find high pricing. The market will find the best solution, as long as the infrastructure is "properly" regulated (antitrust vs. net neutrality).

Comment Re:Meh. (Score 1) 86

That being said, I wished they focused more on what counts: phone service. I CAN PLAY DRM'D MP3'S BUT YOU WON'T GIVE ME MY 3G NETWORK!?

Wah, wah. They do focus on what counts - shareholder value. Their management apparently believes they can make a higher margin / total profit on charging for media services than providing a great 3G network

Fact is, you need to be willing to pay a lot more for 3G than you are. If you (as in all customers) were willing to pay more and increase the margin they project for that service, you could shift their focus to 3Q services instead of music services, because it's all about the bottom line.

The MySpace Ecosystem 185

conq writes "BusinessWeek has an article on how MySpace is developing its own ecosystem in the same way that Microsoft did it with Windows, and Apple with the iPod. From the article: 'Now, MySpace is beginning to create its own ecosystem of third-party companies that are developing features and applications for the giant digital community. The idea is to encourage other companies to use their creativity and expertise to come up with things for MySpace users that MySpace itself hasn't. That could be anything from letting people add to their MySpace home pages from a mobile phone or creating a slide show of their favorite MySpace photos."

Microsoft Calls for Truce With GPL and Linux? 464

An anonymous reader writes to mention an eWeek article discussing Microsoft's efforts to reach out to the open source community. The company is hoping to find a common ground with softare released under the GPL, so that OSS and Microsoft products can interoperate. From the article: "The goal, from both sides, is to meet customer needs, he said, adding, 'This is just the more mature view of the way the world is evolving, and we want to make sure that if customers are choosing Linux or other open-source-based products that we have ways of interoperating and working effectively with that.'" A related article mentions Windows server Expert Jeremy Moskowitzs' call for a truce between the Linux and Windows communities.

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