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Tools for Local Broadband Infrastructure
Open Studios is all about replenishing our precious public domain. We accomplish this mission by emphasizing goals, such as making the tools available to everyone to share information and creating works that contribute to the health and well-being of the world. It's a community-driven goal.
A cheap desktop computer can be obtained from a number of resources. Donors can actively seek out others that need their old equipment. Rarely will one sign up for a free cycle mailing list, and not come across equipment listed to be picked up from someone. All universities have quota contracts with manufacturers that require them to periodically purchase replacement computers. As a result, they have instituted recycle stores where computers are sold for pennies on the dollar. Corporations will likely work to deliver their old computers to others in the community, when they replace their older computers with new ones. If you're looking for a computer on the cheap, just ask, and Open Studios will reach out and help walk you through the steps to obtain one.
Open Source software, sometimes referred to as FOSS, or Free Open Source Software, enables you to install a state-of-the-art operating system on your computer, without having to pay for proprietary software operating systems like Windows.
These are the building blocks for setting up the tools to participate in the Digital Age. So far, you've had to spend very little, if any money at all. The next item is especially interesting. Once your computer is set up with the Fedora Core distribution (recommended), you're ready to connect your computer to an Internet connection, and install state-of-the-art audio and video software. Having a multimedia computer will be the ultimate tool for you. Stanford University's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics bundles together audio and video applications that represent the best audio and video software in the world, today. Major movie studios use it. Major recording studios use it. Major network broadcasters use it. And, with the click of a button, you can download and install it on your computer.
If you need technical support or training support for the applications, Open Studios will reach out and help walk you through the steps to get the support you need for your multimedia computer. All services are free, so you won't have to spend money to learn how to become proficient with your computer.
From the moment you have completed the steps above, you need only click your mouse every week or two, and your system will be updated and you can maintain state-of-the-art multimedia computer tool status forever.
If the idea of a cheap desktop computer having the same setup as the $20,000 computers is news to you, it isn't because it wasn't possible three or four years ago. It was. It's because there are special interests (we call them corporate thugs) who don't want you to know about this approach. They're the same ones who don't want you to know that a local broadband infrastructure will enable every resident in a community to enjoy broadband speeds 10 times faster, or 100 times fYou have to look at this in context: demographics, geography, complexity. There are two issues: one if penetration, the other is the speed of broadband. The speed: people like Verizon are trying to upgrade, and we have proposed legislation to help that, and change the definition of what broadband is...We also need to change our subsidization system...we spend about $6 billion a year in subsidies to telecom companies. They are competing for subsidies and not for service.”aster than what is offered for high prices, today. They're the same ones who don't want you to know that for the same price you're about to pay for a digital tv converter box, you can have all the tv, radio, and live, interactive community-wide videoconferencing you want.
The FCC's Kevin Martin said, recently, "You have to look at this in context: demographics, geography, complexity. There are two issues: one if penetration, the other is the speed of broadband. The speed: people like Verizon are trying to upgrade, and we have proposed legislation to help that, and change the definition of what broadband is...We also need to change our subsidization system...we spend about $6 billion a year in subsidies to telecom companies. They are competing for subsidies and not for service.” $6 billion dollars in subsidies! No wonder they don't want the public to move into the Digital Age, and establish local broadband infrastructure in their communities for $50 per house. No wonder they don't want the public to know that such a low-cost broadband infrastructure, and state-of-the-art multimedia computers would enable all residents to enjoy free telecommunications for generations to come.
Give us a shoutout, soon, and we'll be delighted to work with you, free of charge, to help you get where you want to go. All we ask in return, is for you to share your creative works with others.