Tonight Live: Sputnik “Launches” and I Am Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It

[ Thanks to Jeff
Gerhardt for this link. ]

Tuesday, March 12th, 2002
from the home of Wayne’s World, Aurora IL
Tonight LIVE on www.thelinuxshow.com

At 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et…. Kevin Hill, Jeff
Gerhardt, PJ Hyett, Doc Searls (Linux Journal), Arne Flones and
Russ Pavlicek; have another great show lined up tonight on The
Linux Show!!

In Segment One – Hot News: We will be covering
the hot Linux news of the last few weeks. In particular we will a
series of stories/events that continue to embattle the technology
development community. It has come to a point where TLS is shifting
its editorial posture to a more aggresive tone. We are “mad as hell
and not going to take it anymore.” So, tonight we introduce a new
theme of political confrontation.

In Segment Two- Sputnik “launches” into
Orbit

Well at least to an 802.11 network near you. It is very sad when
you see people you admire have a difficult time. But, it is really
cool when you see those same people stick together as a team, and
launch a new busines. Tonight we will be joined by Art
Tyde, Dave Sifry and Dave LaDuke. These should be very
familiar names as these were the guys who founded the one time high
flying Linux Services organization Linuxcare.

Because of an ill timed attempt at an IPO, Linuxcare sort of
stumbled, and had to reorganize. In April 2001, the intrepid Trio
(At, Dave and Dave) left Linuxcare and formed a new company that
they basically put under wraps. Last month did they launch the Web
site to inform the world of their plans. To this point (almost a
year later)there has been no marketing or advertising of the (uhhh)
Product (no its a service I think).

The secrecy was to “under-promise and over-deliver,” as Sifry
put it. What it does is very cool. It is an Open Source 802.11b
wireless gateway designed to allow wireless access providers to
authenticate users while sharing their bandwidth. This is based on
the explosion of wireless mesh networks that are poping up across
the world. It allows service providers, and even users to build
their own Sputnik Node. Bandwidth Providers will share in the
revenue, once the commercial side of the service goes live. At
present over 100 service providers have signed up to provide access
points.

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Chat(irc.thelinuxshow.com #linuxshow).

Remember tune in at 6pm pt, 7pm mt, 8pm ct, and 9pm et.

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