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Re: Must be open source!
I've heard about this P4P conglomerate before, and although I'm not sure whether it's OSS, they're very very reputable. |
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| I think the process that they're taking is a bit "Rube Goldberg"-ish. I've talked to Laird Popkin at Pando about Open Source and he assures me that it will be Open Source. However, the ISP's data (the input that drives some of this behavior) might be closed or obfuscated somehow (I really haven't looked into that). Some ISPs are sensitive about competitors using the data to learn their secret recipe.
I still haven't taken a position on it, but my fears have gone from "be afraid, be very afraid" (especially concerning the who's who that is in the DCIA) to one of "as long as users will have free choice of applications and protocols, then this is just another market entrant and it will live and die on its own merits."
I am put off with the test results of 235% and 898%, since the results are not described in terms that can be independently reproduced. But that's just the technician in me.
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