Hi, Besides LINUX which is "open computing" there is another possible "open technology routing of packets". OLSR or "open mesh routing". Please see the few emails on the google group "OPEN MOBILE". *** This open mesh routing is a technology in search of a solution ----- like Xerox copiers initially were, nobody knew why Xerox copiers would be useful -------------- so I'm brainstorming all of you to ask: what will you do with free or almost free routing of packets. ******** Initially, I said, everybody in India should have a cheap monthly payment computer which includes services providable by free routing such as ----------- security cameras for everybody in the building, security cameras for everybody in shops, even genuine-ness of currency note verification (the chip would be very small with a very small antenna which would be embedded in each currency note to be read and verified with a central database or by local digital signing), then we had training for everybody as in life-long education and skills training, then local advertisements.

******* Now, in local shops GOOGLE is sending out teams of people with CARDS to sign in to their web-site and provide information (we did get these cards --- there exact usage is to enable shops to sign in and display information). ** Potentially, with ubiquitous routing (similar to Microsoft's ubiquitous computing) every valuable item on this planet can be tagged ---- the inventory taking problem of factories would be solved (no more lost articles in shops or factories or even homes). ** The supply-chain delivery problem, the transportation problem, gets completely resolved.

Erach