Google’s Secret Switch to the Next Wave of Networking

[sankt]

Google essentially has remade a major part of its massive internal network, providing the company a bonanza in savings and efficiency. Google has done this by brashly adopting a new and radical open-source technology called OpenFlow.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise...e-flow-google/

[swingdjted]

Commies!

Open-source is essentially digital communism. That's not to say I oppose it. I quite love both being part of the creation process and and using open-source technology.

Admittedly, I do get a little jealous when I see a for-profit giant making enormous amounts of money by using the freely provided work of others.

[rockouthippie]

Actually commies are the ones that want all these intellectual property laws. Business is highly opposed to it. Conservative justices like Sandra Day O'Connor were against "forever minus one day" copyrights and would like tighter patent laws. They got outvoted by commies on the court.

Commie Sonny Bono started the whole mess.

Google spends billions to have big pipes to the internet, and pays for it with advertising. That sounds pretty capitalist to me.

You might consider this. The feud between Philo Farnsworth and RCA over patents delayed consumer television sets from being produced for 20 years.

You could have had a 1930 TV if not for patent laws. And we did. As soon as most of the patents expired.

Copyrights at more than 100 years in length... that's right out of Lenin's cookbook...