eben moglen takes over the o'r# stage. instead of talking about marketing terms and ads, time should be used to solve some real problem and to talk about what the concept of freedom means today. gpl3 gives you 10 more years to do so ... some good point's in there.

eben moglen: software and community in the early 21st century and his talk for the google crowd: thoughts on the world's largest possible computer & what it runs on

i can't deny, for me he is the sir. so: an interview with sir caillau (without royal klimbim, but a beer) at wikinews. enjoy!

At another occasion I asked a representative of France Telecom for his e-mail address. He gave me an X-400 address and I asked for an internet address. He raised his eyebrows and said: "Monsieur, vous ne pensez quand-même pas que France Telecom va soutenir l'internet?" ("Sir, I hope you do not expect that France Telecom will support the internet?"). And all that happened when the web was already a success, though indeed only in the academic world ...

there was an interview also at matrix, a long, long, long time ago ...

MAP, Manufactoring Automation Protocol, based on the osi reference model. its purpose was to "break down the 'islands of automation' in factories, developed by general motors and mike kaminski spread the word.

at the same time, Boeing Co. outlined plans for breaking down communications barriers in the office. These specifications, called the Technical Office Protocol (TOP), shared many common elements with MAP. Initially, the two user groups cooperated on spreading the OSI gospel, and a few years ago, the groups merged. | software magazine 1990

some years later the question was: has it failed? some say because it followed the osi model and it's "creeping featurism" (industrial computing magazine) others put the blame on high costs modern machine shop, 1993

the magazin "hard and soft" sang the song, too. 1986, in several editions. one line from their article:

... sie sind dann nicht nur auf das telefon "als das netzwerk des kleinen mannes" angewiesen, wie ein automatisierungs-manager beim cim-kongress der systec zu diesem thema anmerkte.

cim übersetzen sie mit "computer assistierte industrie". im original: computer integrated manufacturing