I must concur with what Bill has said in response to this. These are not
new issues, albeit new to some. The fact of the matter is, in order for
things to change it will require a large consortium of businesses,
educational institutions, and political parties working together to
truly open up access to these things. It will be hard to sway anyone of
forfeiting their bottom line to allow "innovation" to come through.
Tivo is not the sort of organization that many of us hold to be "open."
Regards,
Kevin Elliott
Integrated Living Spaces, LLC
Bill Kearney wrote:
In regard to the "open garden" issue - we are starting to see the big
companies do their proprietary number and shut out any innovation that
they
do not control.
"starting to see", where have YOU BEEN for the past two decades? They've
been holding location and other data services hostage for per-packet ransom
since day one. There's no end in sight either.
This whole move to charge for bandwidth is an innovation
killer.
What a stunning grasp of the incredibly obvious status quo, going on 20
years now.
Only Tivo has
been true to the spirit of a partially open platform.
I'm sure there's an audience that buys perspectives like this. But I'm
thinking this isn't it.
-Bill Kearney
Syndic8.com
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