[PLUG] WiFi article by Robert X. Cringely (non-Linux related)

[Eugene Smiley <eugene@esmiley.net>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

JANUARY 8, 2004
For love not money: How WhyFi can turn hotspots into a real industry
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040108.html

By Robert X. Cringely

"WiFi -- 802.11b, -a, and -g wireless networking -- is the big
Internet success story of this decade. It's successful because it is
simple, cheap, and unlicensed. And that lack of a required license is
taking WiFi places nobody ever expected it to go. How could a local
area networking technology, for example, compete with and even
threaten such entrenched (and licensed) technologies as mobile and
wired telephones and even broadband Internet? It's not because WiFi is
so good but because it is so free of restrictions that we can turn it
into whatever we want. And in this case "we" means just about anyone.
But the big money lately seems to be going into WiFi hotspots and
hotspot aggregation. And as promised last week, I think the current
aggregators are going about it all wrong."


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-nr2 (Windows XP)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQE//2PV6QPtAqft/S8RAj2KAKDeJVIzMZ6uYavAqDV+EGLyuViw6QCfQSPG
yjMJ3SFmBQIyxxr+GUlmrjk=
=Ux7J
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Attachment: smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature