Originally posted here by bAgZ
How about this, can opennes save the internet? http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/1360/
Firstly, I am prejudiced from the start because there are some Cultural Assumption overtones...

The government is the strongest supporter of closed source software, having committed to long-lasting delivery agreements with Microsoft...
Sorry which government was that?


Secondly, it simplifies the...

proliferation of spam, worms, crackers, and viruses....
...into a "lets use open-source" bandwagon and then tacks on a "lets regulate the internet", marketing corporate networks and VPN as the method...

Say whaat? Did you pick-up the contradiction?

Al