Perhaps that quote should go on the web site's front page? > -----Original Message----- > From: George Metz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 11:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Leaf-devel] Interesting article with a more interesting > reference... > > > As I was reading my way through Slashdot today, I came across the > following article, listed as, "...if you read one article > referenced from > Slashdot this month, this should be the one." It's the > transcript of an > interview with Eben Moglen, general counsel of the Free Software > Foundation. > > Part One is here: > > http://www.immaterial.net/page.php3?id=44 > > The following reference is from Part Two. It's long, but interesting. > > "The Cisco world consists of selling at exorbitantly high > prices routers > which use proprietary software. So, in order to know how to program a > router you have to know Cisco-talk. They spend vast amounts > of money in > junior colleges on vocational educational systems to teach people > Cisco-talk, and those kids graduate with Cisco certification, > they go to > work in the businesses that need network infrastructure, and > they install > Cisco hardware. There's a bilateral monopoly between technically, > vocationally trained people, who have learned a proprietary > way of doing > things, and a manufacturer which sells goods at very high > markups, because > it has a proprietary, secret language. > > Now, the router is in fact not a complicated entity. Many years ago we > created, spontaneously, a thing called Linux-router.org, > which is simply a > way of providing a Linux kernel optimized for routing in a > very flexible > little package that fits on a 1.44 floppy disk, and routers > are in fact > throwaway boxes - a strong router is a 100 Mghz 486." > > Good to know that we've got the kudos of the FSF. Good job, Dave, and > everyone else out there who's done anything to make LRP a little bit > better. > > -- > George Metz > Commercial Routing Engineer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leaf-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/leaf-devel > _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/leaf-devel
