Forbes: Does Open-Source Software Make The FCC Irrelevant?

“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…”

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