[LUAU] Spreading OpenSource w/ ZenCart & 808lunch.com

[Jim Thompson]

On Mar 26, 2008, at 9:13 PM, R. Scott Belford wrote:

> Three years ago we started a project to put computers and free but  
> filtered
> wifi in parks.  In doing so I had to overcome a lot of objections at  
> the
> City level, for nearly a year, before we were allowed to give the  
> city a
> computer lab and free wifi in Ewa Beach.


In fact, I helped build this (a couple C & C employees helped).

> After the Chinatown wifi meltdown, our City's CIO called me to see  
> if we
> could install the same firewall content filter for Chinatown that we  
> had
> been installing in the parks.


Note that I had fundamental objections to this filter(ing).

> Because the project was using Meraki units

meraki isn't the best company to work with.

> I was then asked to give up root for a box that we were asked to  
> support and
> put our name behind.  There were clear profit motives, which is  
> fine, but it
> was clearly not our place to be used this way without a lot more  
> disclosure
> and collaboration.  I did not give up root but offered to update the  
> box as
> needed.

For pay WiFi (even if the payment is "ad space" and eyeballs) is the  
Internet's equivalent of the pay toilet, and doomed to the same fate.

> I think we saw eye to eye on what happened and why quite clearly,  
> Aryn.  It
> was a shame, it was a tremendous lost opportunity, but we were happy  
> to help
> and were appropriately excluded when we did not cooperate in this  
> unexpected
> way.


Why wasn't this box a recycled eWaste donation like any other?

Jim