Tonight Live: The FCC is Still Trying to Kill the small ISP Industry!

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Tonight Live: The FCC is still trying to kill the small
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Tonight: On The Linux Show!!
Tuesday, April 6th, 2004 from Chicago IL
Tonight on www.thelinuxshow.com.

Kevin Hill, Arne Flones, Doc Searls, Russ Pavlicek AND Jeff
Gerhardt are bringing you a great show tonight ready to
go!!!!!!

Segment One- The News. We will cover
THE HOT NEWS of the week including: TLS has a
child, Unhappy web host clients make unhappy web host company, the
word is out for the RIAA and it STINKS, Microsoft’s tap dances,
Novell on the path, NASA has a great month, a clueless pundit or
two…….. and way more.

Story Links

• The News This Weeks
  • The Linux
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    Releases Code to Open Source Community–By Gavin
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  • Moving
    to Linux may not save money–yet–By Matt Hines – CNET
    News.com
  • Fork in
    Linux Road?–By Jim Rapoza – eWeek
  • New
    Sharp Zaurus SL-6000L: First
    Impressions–BargainPDA.com
  • IBM
    OFFERS NEW DEPARTMENTAL SUPERCOMPUTING
    SOLUTIONS–ByBigBlueLinux.org
  • Open
    Source Software: What Is It and How Does It
    Work?–By – GrokLaw
  • 
    Linux Not A Low-Cost Alternative to Unix and Windows for Large
    Enterprises, –says the Yankee Group
  • 
    Sun, Microsoft Pact Viewed As ‘Unholy Alliance’Against Linux,
    IBM –By
  • Microsoft forges
    link with open source–By

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Segment Two- A Call to Action- Can we save the
Internet?–

We will be joined tonight by the CEO & president of
Brand X Internet, Jim Pickrell. Jim has announced
a call to action for ISPs and their customers to form a coalition
that will advance the cause of open, non-discriminatory access to
broadband networks of all kinds. Many ISPs, WISPs and ISP industry
association executives have already expressed interest and their
support in joining the alliance. Jim has fought this battle on his
own so far. With the very capable representation of his counsel
Harvey Reiter, they have successfully and single-handedly
challenged the FCC. Now its time to take this to the next
level.

Jim has been waging a one man battle since Novebmer of 2004
against the phone and cable companies. You can find out more about
Jim original call to arms at http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Jan/1022607.htm.
Recently the success of his efforts have caused a stir in the ISP
industry that is motivating the ISP associations to pull together
and try to get politically organized.

We at TLs recognise the battle that is before Jim, having had
the experience of trying to get the now stalled “GeekPac” political
action committee started in the Open Source movement. It is HARD to
get people politically organized around a narrow group of issues,
even when their livelyhood is at stake. It is very hard to get a
non-partisan movement started. So, some of us here at TLS have
agreed to through what weight we had behind Jim’s movement.

Also joining us will be a representative from ISPCON, the ISP
trade association conference & expo, probably their President
Jon Price. TLS will be participating in ISPCON and will be doing
some lobbying with the FCC and other parties in DC.

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