IP: Sirius complaint

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Jon Lebkowsky" <jonl () polycot com>
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:57:38 -0600
To: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Subject: Sirius complaint

Dave, Cory Doctorow posted this at http://www.boingboing.net:

Sirius, a carpetbagger sat radio service, has petitioned the FCC to
restrict -- and possibly eliminate -- the unregulated use of the 2.4GHz
band. These weasels haven't shipped their sat radio service, but they're
pewling over the raw speculation that use of 2.4GHz in 802.11 and other
technologies might interfere with their service.

Check it: These guys are asking the Feds to eliminate the single most
exciting technology to hit the noosphere in the past five years, a
profoundly democratic and paradigm-shifting technology and these guys want
to get rid of it because they're worried that it might interfere with a
commercial service that they haven't even demonstrated a need, a use or a
wish for. These stinking whores are asking the FCC to eliminate a bottom-up,
popular technology that puts people online with minimal infrastructure
(i.e., putting hundreds of people at SXSW online last week with $300 worth
of gear and ten minutes' work) in favor of the most centralized technology
imaginable: Sattelite. Expensive, high-latency, heavily regulated, out of
reach to all but the richest and most powerful of us.

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Jon Lebkowsky
Polycot Consulting
jonl () polycot com ~ http://www.polycot.com




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