Quoting:The lesson to be learned here is that in order to protect freedom on the internet it is absolutely essential to decentralise, to bypass vulnerable servers and to filter finances through open source software that is either more resistant or actually immune to government pressure on commercial interests.

Quoting: Odessa Office Equipment is my favorite WISP (Wireless ISP) success story, because its founder and owner, Marlon Schafer beat Paul Allen at turning a profit selling wireless Internet. You may recall the heady days of the new millennium, when Mr. Allen was pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into Metricom's Ricochet network, which wound up declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and was eventually sold for just over eight million dollars. Gosh knows you can't blame a billionaire for trying, and if I had that much money to play with I hope I would also have grand ambitions, and not just spend my days filling my swimming pool with hundred-dollar bills to wallow in.

But while the big boys were flinging big wads of money all over the place, Mr. Schafer took out a $10,000 loan, stuck an antenna on top of his grain silo, signed up ten paying customers, and has been profitable ever since. http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netsysm/article.ph...