Topic 'Must be open source!' in forum '' - dslreports.com http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Must-be-open-source-20984634 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:14:32 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:14:32 EDT Re: Must be open source! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20986979
I still haven't taken a position on it, but my fears have gone from "be afraid, be very afraid" (especially concerning the who's who that is in the DCIA) to one of "as long as users will have free choice of applications and protocols, then this is just another market entrant and it will live and die on its own merits."

I am put off with the test results of 235% and 898%, since the results are not described in terms that can be independently reproduced. But that's just the technician in me.
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20986979 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:23:11 EDT Re: Must be open source! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20986596 FCC slaps Comcast, but lays foundation for future bandwidth restrictions »www.tgdaily.com/content/view/39002/128/]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20986596 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:57:51 EDT Re: Must be open source! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20986564 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20986564 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:50:56 EDT Re: Must be open source! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20984843 said by AstroBoy:

Must be open source! Or I will not trust it.

That would be a necessary condition for me too. But even if it's open source, if it's run by the ISP, it's still untrustworthy in my view, and will be closely monitored.

The more important question is about:

quote:
Will the system come with anti-piracy provisions and if so, will it create an ISP gatekeeper situation to wall off "non-sanctioned" P2P content?



That's probably the goal: make the p4p easy and fast, but it will have only the selection approved by the ISP and the copyright holders, and maybe laden with DRM, fees and whatnot.

Then they'll try to demonize regular p2p, implying that anything outside the approved application must be piracy. Then throttle, ban or otherwise interfere with regular p2p, based on a claim that p4p should be able to do everything the user wants.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Must-be-open-source-20984843 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:46:47 EDT Must be open source! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Must-be-open-source-20984634 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Must-be-open-source-20984634 Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:08:00 EDT