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Wednesday, July 02, 2003
| Why network neutrality matters |
| Larry Lessig:"The point is obvious (save to those who inhale the DC air): Investments in technologies for the Internet are being made today, based upon the expectations about what the Internet will be in 3-5 years. If cable companies are allowed to decide what applications and content gets to run on that network, then the cost of innovation has been increased right now."
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| Benefits of Open Source Quantified |
| Nature: "'Closed-source' software, finessed by staff hired to work on information that users send in, requires higher-quality programmers and more users to attain the same level of perfection as open-source software in a comparable time."
The paper linked above seems to vindicate the argument my colleague Yochai Benkler makes in Coases's Penguin, a law review article you can find on his site. Yochai has done some fantastic work on the political and information economy of open source as well as spectrum policy.
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