On 14/03/2008, A Agutter Pineapple Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Create employment at the same time, and have the whole package (license) > incorporated into The 'British Broadcasting and Communications > Corporation' (Incorporated 2010). > > This is where we need to go and there would never be an issue over the > TV license ever again or DRM as the whole shooting match for TV, > Broadband, Radio, Telephone would be incorporated in one hit.
There'll never be a "British Broadcasting and Communications Corporation," but maybe there'll be a "Peruvian Broadcasting and Communications Corporation" :-) The "free spectrum" aspect of the digital freedom movement (the other aspects being free software, free culture, and free hardware (which means hardware that comes with specifications, not zero price)) is the toughest one, and I think it will happen first in the countries whose Education Ministry equivalents are buying hundreds of thousands of OLPC laptops. I can't see any politician who when he was 6 was given a mesh networking laptop by his school supporting a policy of locked down spectrum :-) Indeed, I expect those countries to overrun the currently dominant ones like ours, because they don't have the baggage - no need to pretend in the hypocrisy of "intellectual property," less addicted to cheap fossil energy, etc. -- Regards, Dave Personal opinion only. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
