So, I’ve moved on from righteous indignation yesterday to outright disbelief today. News this week that the South African communications regulator (ICASA) have sent their enforcers in to confiscate Dabba’s WiFi equipment in Orange Farm…
I am filled today, as is often enough the case these days, with a sense of righteous indignation. In a meeting earlier today, Dominic Cull (firebrand lawyer for the forces of telecommunications good in South…
Cory Doctorow is one of my heroes. A great writer, an outspoken champion of the commons, and someone who is not afraid to be himself in public. I have relied on his ideas countless times…
South Africa, which recently made a great leap forward in the opening up of competition in the telecommunications is in danger of making an even bigger leap backwards thanks to the license fees being proposed…
Imagine an alternative history. Imagine that in 1995, when Microsoft launched their walled-garden MSN service, which they fully expected would, for all intents and purposes, put the Internet out of business, imagine that they succeeded.…