:Forbes: Does Open-Source Software Make The FCC Irrelevant?
Forbes: Does Open-Source Software Make The FCC Irrelevant? Oct 18, 2005, 15 :15 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (6278 reads) (Other stories by Daniel Fisher)
"Columbia Law School Professor Eben Moglen wants to destroy the Federal Communications Commission. Not as some kind of terrorist act, but because technology is rapidly making it irrelevant.
"The agency might have made sense in the 1920s, Moglen says, when it was formed to assign specific frequencies to broadcasters so they wouldn’t try to drown each other out by cranking up the transmitter power. But a new generation of intelligent radios, combined with equally clever computer networks, is making it possible for anybody to use the airwaves without interfering with anybody else..."
