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IBM / Amazon Deal: Oracle Should Wait for Clouds to Clear, Microsoft Shouldn't

Hi Dana,
Can you write an article on this: " It's the MS-DOS license deal in reverse at a higher abstraction," including some historical background, how it impacted the PC/Mac industry, and explain what may be the "reverse" of it? I would appreciate reading such an exposition.

Telecom, Internet Players Backpedal on Progress

So-called "net neutrality" needs to be instituted at the citizen/user level (you seem to call it "the last mile), so that we citizens are not saddled with services that are inferior to those accessed by larger businesses, the privileged, or the well-to-do.

It's also true that the goal is to strenghten democracy, not the corporates, and that this is done by laws that make illegal to decrease the quantity and quality of info., and also mandate a greater increase in the amount and quality of information and opinion that is diverse. These will benefit me, and, if this is not the result of a net neutrality scheme, it's not implemented to benefit me. It's, therefore, a loss to me, compelling me to be less interested in national democracy leading me to promote a greater reliance on regional, insular, democratic solutions which the gov. -- if it is not hell bent on allowing methods of oppression -- should promote in order to counter the dominance of monoliths and opportunists who, by their very nature, do not necessarily have my interests in mind.

I order to increase a greater flow and quality of info. and opinion, we also need to decrease methods that domestic spy agencies use to gather data on us. To achieve this, I propose the opening up of the CIA, the DIA, the NRO, NASA, et al., to citizen scrutiny, and strengthening the Legislature at the expense of the Executive. Among other things, this means repudiating the recent anti-progressive laws such as the U. S. Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and even such innocuous sounding laws as Reagan's "compilation law" so that citizens can regain the freedom to think differently and regain the Writ, and regional newspapers and media outlets can be freer to discuss issues other than what the presidential executive and corporates want. Some of these unseemly laws and provisions can be reversed quickly simply because they were passed quickly.

Telecom, Internet Players Backpedal on Progress

So-called "net neutrality" needs to be instituted at the citizen/user level (you seem to call it "the last mile), so that we citizens are not saddled with services that are inferior to those accessed by larger businesses, the privileged, or the well-to-do.

It's also true that the goal is to strenghten democracy, not the corporates, and that this is done by laws that make illegal to decrease the quantity and quality of info., and also mandate a greater increase in the amount and quality of information and opinion that is diverse. These will benefit me, and, if this is not the result of a net neutrality scheme, it's not implemented to benefit me. It's, therefore, a loss to me, compelling me to be less interested in national democracy leading me to promote a greater reliance on regional, insular, democratic solutions which the gov. -- if it is not hell bent on allowing methods of oppression -- should promote in order to counter the dominance of monoliths and opportunists who, by their very nature, do not necessarily have my interests in mind.

I order to increase a greater flow and quality of info. and opinion, we also need to decrease methods that domestic spy agencies use to gather data on us. To achieve this, I propose the opening up of the CIA, the DIA, the NRO, NASA, et al., to citizen scrutiny, and strengthening the Legislature at the expense of the Executive. Among other things, this means repudiating the recent anti-progressive laws such as the U. S. Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, and even such innocuous sounding laws as Reagan's "compilation law" so that citizens can regain the freedom to think differently and regain the Writ, and regional newspapers and media outlets can be freer to discuss issues other than what the presidential executive and corporates want. Some of these unseemly laws and provisions can be reversed quickly simply because they were passed quickly.