[svlug] Re: WC:>: Open Source Philosophy Model?

[Hans Cathcart]

Please read "Being Digital" by Negroponte.  The beautiful thing about
digital is that you can send the standards during the handshaking. All you
need to agree upon is the handshaking protcol.

At 9:28 PM -0800 11/14/98, Charles Ritter wrote:
>Microsoft Network, WebTV: content and distribution. As a distributor and
>content provider it would serve their cause if they owned the standards.
>For a good historic example read up on Philo Farnsworth and David
>Sarnoff. The Discovery channel did a good documentary on their struggle
>to define the standards for broadcast television.
>
>Microsoft, the telecos, and the broadcast industry, and the recorded
>music industry, and the higher education industry, and the vertically
>integrated hardware companies... there are a lot of people who could try
>to technically, or politically, try to "break" the Internet because they
>think it's in their best interests (IMHO).

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