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Wireless Neighborhood Network

October 3rd, 2001

Byte has a very interesting article by Moshe Bar who set up a wireless free Internet service in his area. It’s a good read about the technology and issues. At the beginning of the article, he talks about how the Open Source business model is failing. I have to agree with what he says, but the fact that the open source “business model” is failing does not mean that open source is failing.
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Economics and the Independent Developers

October 1st, 2001

Dave Winer writes that “The economics of software favor small independent developers, patents change that.” While I’m certainly against software patents (and very, very opposed to patents being allowed in W3C standards), I’m not sure that I agree with the economics favoring small developers.
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