ICANN has little democratic legitimacy. Would we be happier with
the ITU?

hacking the united nations [0E] (((accurate obsession)))

]
] Sun has just submitted a newly created license, the CDDL,
] to OSI for approval. Or not. They don't say officially if
] this is the license for an open source Solaris, but,
] well, duh. Probably it depends on if it is approved or
] not, for starters. But it's not a definite, and they
] would like suggestions and input on the license, separate
] from any particular product. So, let's read it as a
] proposed license for anything. Is it an improvement over
] current licenses or not? That is the question. Also,
] should it be approved by OSI? It's taken from the
] language of the Mozilla Public License but is an attempt
] to improve it from Sun's standpoint. So I have drawn up a
] little chart, so you can compare and provide meaningful
] input.

When Netscape was initially open-sourced, it took a long time for the rest of the community outside of AOL employees to get their fingers into it because its so huge. Its worse here for Sun because
where everyone liked and wanted to use Netscape -- and in fact was the only remotely viable browser option on Linux at the time -- noone really cares about Solaris.

I think the GPL-incompatibility issue is going to prove mostly to be moot. What is there in Solaris that we'd want to put into Linux anyway? Maybe a few bits to support running on huge Suns but then how many people really have such boxes anyway?

GROKLAW on Sun's Proposed CDDL

] The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether
] Internet providers should be allowed to sell their
] high-speed service over the cable television system.

Supreme Court to Hear ISP, Cable Dispute

Bork advocates an "originalist" interpretation of the constitution.

Theories of Constitutional Interpretation

] WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 - Many liberal women have never
] forgiven Senator Arlen Specter for his pointed
] questioning of Prof. Anita F. Hill, whose accusations of
] sexual harassment against Judge Clarence Thomas, then a
] Supreme Court nominee, riveted the nation. But
] conservatives have never forgiven him for crossing party
] lines to defeat another Supreme Court nominee, Judge
] Robert H. Bork.

Look up Bork if you've never heard of him before (I couldn't
find something to blog immediately) ... he was nominated to
the Supreme Court towards the end of Reagan's presidency.

Bork Hearings Resurface as Impediment to Specter

] WASHINGTON - With a hug and words of high praise,
] President Bush (news - web sites) named Alberto Gonzales
] as attorney general on Wednesday, elevating the
] administration's most prominent Hispanic to a highly
] visible post in the war on terror.

He isn't great but better than Ashcroft, probably.

Bush Picks Gonzales to Succeed Ashcroft

] WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Victory may have a thousand fathers,
] but if President Bush's triumph this week had a Big Daddy
] it was indisputably Karl Rove - the seer, strategist and
] serious student of politics and the presidency that a
] grateful Mr. Bush himself referred to as the architect of
] his winning campaign.

Karl Rove Is in Position to Consolidate Republican Majority

] The first wave of exit-poll data reaching my desk comes
] from a variety of sources. In some states the sources
] disagree about the specific margin by which a candidate
] leads, but never about which candidate is out in front.
] Some of the confusion may stem from the mixing of morning
] exit-poll numbers with early afternoon numbers. With
] those provisos and the understanding that the early
] numbers are predictive of nothing without their
] accompanying computer model, here's what I've heard:

Slate is leaking exit poll data.

Early Exit - A squeaker!

] Eliot Spitzer, the New York State attorney general, has
] recently taken on a procession of corporate powers from
] Wall Street analysts to mutual funds to insurance
] brokers. Now he is casting his eyes on the music
] industry, particularly its practices for influencing what
] songs are heard on the public airwaves.

Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny

]
] ASHINGTON, Oct. 14 - With less than three weeks before
] the election, Ralph Nader is emerging as just the threat
] that Democrats feared, with a potential to tip the
] balance in up to nine states where President Bush and
] Senator John Kerry are running neck and neck.

Sigh...

Nader Emerging as the Threat Democrats Feared