David T. Witkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some people feel that when Nicholas starts commenting on techno-culture, >it's a sign things have moved on. Perhaps not in the case. > >http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/wireless.html?pg=1&topic=&topic >_set
These days, when Wired do a whole print issue on a subject you know it's time to move on to the "next greatest thing". But then I spent a lot of yesterday evening wandering round all the WiFi sites. My perception is that the enthusiast activity has essentially stalled. There was a great outpouring of thought 18 months ago and now we're left with a lot of hard work and coding to bring all that into reality. And it's not really happening. It would be sad if the BigCos (M$?[1]) hijack WiFi and twist it to their ends just as we're on the verge of having a critical mass of end users. That's probably going to upset the people here that *are* beavering away. So I'm not belittling your efforts. Just expressing a bit of disappointment. And you'll have to excuse me for not doing enough myself but my hands are full of other things at the moment. JB [1]I've argued before that we need an MS Win hard/soft package that is simple to install and solves both the internal home WLAN but also plays well with the outside world. And does it in a way that protects all (ISP, WLAN Owner, WLAN User) the parties involved. That could be a great strength of the M$ package. But unfortunately it's unlikely to "play well with the outside world". -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ CV/Resume: http://www.voidstar.com/cv/ M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
