Compsci 182s: Technical and Social Foundations of the Internet (Spring 2012), Essay

Write an argumentative essay in which you take a stand, supported by your own research, for one side in one of the topics listed below. Limit your essay to 6 pages excluding references. See the help pages for sources that will help you write an essay. Submit argumentative essay as a pdf document through sakai. Follow the group due dates.

Information on how the essays are graded

Essay Topics

1. Google, Oracle, Android and Java, issues in copyright.

Engadget starting point with links to other articles, among them: this one on FOSS Patents

Take a stand either for Google or for Oracle.

2. iPhone Jailbreaking: issues in copyright, DMCA, and vendor-consumer lock-in.

Wired Article

Other references

Take a stand either for Apple or for jailbreakers.

3. Search Neutrality: Google vs Yelp

New York Times Article

Yelp's written testimony to Congress

Other references

Take a stand either for Google or for Yelp.