The continuing shortage of Internet bandwidth which drives the network neutrality debate has always puzzled me. (An OpenBTS development kit, from the project’s Sourceforge site.)Reason being there is no real shortage. The bottleneck has always been in the “last mile,” the on-ramp of your cell phone or your PC, or the router connection your home network uses to reach the outside world.

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Over at his other job, our David Gewirtz suggests that, with the absorption of Sun into Oracle, open source badly needs an open source patron and that IBM should apply.

When I wrote disparagingly of Illumos yesterday, I got some well-deserved pushback.So it may be useful to discuss what Illumos is, and is not.Illumos is a fork of Open Solaris, but it’s a fork of a special type.A normal fork takes today’s code and goes off in a new direction with it. Gradually the forked program and the root diverge.