penumbra2000

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   by penumbra2000 7y ago

   FOSS - fully agreed. It's at the core of many industries (movie-relevant example... guess how many encoders are based on ffmpeg? Answer: practically all of them. Patent restrictions around codecs are so complex that it takes a question
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   by penumbra2000 7y ago

   I think this could recreate the problem to some extent, as the shared infrastructure would be owned/administrated by someone, who then would have lots of aggregate data to sell.
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   by penumbra2000 7y ago

   Further to this, in Canada at least, all DSLs are subleasing lines in bulk from one single backbone provider (Bell). Competition is legislatively required but de facto questionably existent; in addition I would be surprised that Bell doesn&