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Name: Bond
Comment: The key thing is not ranting about ISP's policy to throttle bandwidth. The key thing is to take away the ability of the ISPs to throttle bandwidth. Few years back universities in the US uses a lot of hardware limiters that attaches to the network ports to limit the bandwidth. But nowadays a software based limiter is prefered like the one in this page
http://softperfect.com/products/bandwidth/
I am not sure what the ISPs are using. Anyway if you wish to stop this is quite simple if all the open source community come together.
Ussually the company that sells these equipments to ISPs will have trademarks embeded inside their firmware or unique string used by their company's domain where their developers are developing the software to be used within their products. Like for example ABC company would have their domain name as www.abc.com or in the products they have this trademark embeded into the machine as ABCPR or something like that.
What the open source community can do is to identify these trademarks, domain name or any unique identification of those companies that develops these products and BAN them from their SDKs. Hence if a programmer from ABC company wants to install this JAVA kit to develop a web based interface. When he installs the SDK, the installer will automatically detect his domain and also other strings that would identify a company developing these products. If found then it will exit with a message. Normally these companies cannot simply change their domain name. For trademarks it will be difficult process because of many regulatory bodies involved. And also the dlls that reside in your system32 needs to be registered with Microsoft. Because if two vendors write different software but have the same dll name will overwrite each other. Hence a good place to start is to detect certain dll names that is proprietry to the company that develops these products and BAN them from your SAVE function.
If their developer run into trouble using free stuffs to develop, then they will need to source for other paid services. This willn increase their cost for development and also that cost will translate to the price of their products making it MORE EXPENSIVE for ISPs to buy these products. This not only applies to the SDKs to develop the product itself but also to the company's webpage, database systems and etc. Say MySQL. If the developer decide to put company ABC in the ban list, then that company will need to PAY for either oracle or SQL Server which is not cheap. SO folks, hope this helps. No need to scold people or rant around. Next time, just add the company into a checklist and BAN them from your free source development kit.
