Tuesday May 05, 2009 ☞ Governance, Copyright Bullying and Making Things Work
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The most rational and useful summary of the Java-for-Cloud and GAE/J discussion that I've seen so far - nice work by IEEE Tech Talk.
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Ubuntu offered to update my EeePC to 9.04 and I foolishly succumbed to its siren call. My EePC is now irredeemably borked and needs an operating system to be installed from scratch. Ubuntu was great, but since it can't be trusted to perform a routine update I may as well try something else. Next on my list: OpenSolaris. Last time I tried it it wasn't really ready, let's see what everyone's work (not least Masafumi-san) have wrought.
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A visible reminder of the huge, global exercise of corporate influence through the willing offices of the US Department of Commerce that has led to governments globally acting against the interests of the culture, education and innovation of their own citizens rather than being blackmailed over their main sources of income.
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Not that I think it was done intentionally. Rather, the careless use of great power by Microsoft (who, having outsourced the Windows Update, presumably didn't feel it was their problem any more) and Akamai (who presumably made the content non-cachable for great reasons nothing to do with preventing other organizations disintermediating them) resulted in collateral damage to ordinary people.
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A necessary next step for the internet, presumably something that wasn't even worth asking the previous regime to consider. As long as it doesn't end up being even more manipulable as a tool of an easily-rigged majority like the Global Raciscm Conference became.
Posted by webmink
( May 05 2009, 07:30:23 AM PDT )
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