Re: why Senator Stevens is right on Net Neutrality

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 7/6/06, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> Erm, I think we agree dude.
>
> My point is, it is ALL about business, which is why we shouldn't let these
> ISP's tell us how to use our lines.


Whoops, I missed the

"(against the legislation and PRO Net Neutrality)"

Part

no more emails before 8:00am from Dude :-)

-JP<who simmers down now>
>         Gadi.
>
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Dude VanWinkle wrote:
>
> > On 7/6/06, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
> >
> > > He nailed down the subject into the point that matters:
> > > Business. It's about profit.
> >
> > BullShit, the net _can_ be all about profit, but it should be more than that.
> >
> > Humans currently turn everything people enjoy into a business, but the
> > fact is business as usual(as it is here in the states at least) is bad
> > for the continued development of an idea or service.
> >
> > Music is now a business, and its mostly schlock.
> >
> > Cars and gasoline are businesses, thats why all the trolleys were
> > dismantled and also why the electric car was put on the shelf.
> >
> > Light bulbs are a business and thats why they burn out in a year, even
> > though they are capable of lasting almost indefinitely.
> >
> > Energy is a business, thats why .... err you get the idea.
> >
> > If we let businesses do what businesses do, the Internet will become
> > nothing but a big AOL landscape, full of schlock.
> >
> > The net was paid for partly by billions of taxpayer dollars in
> > incentives (and student tuitions), Why should these monopolies (some
> > of which were forcably dismanteled and are now buying each other up
> > again [see at&t and bellsouth] be the only ones in control?
> >
> > Since you like the Tubes description so much, why not think of the
> > Internet as a Subway system, which is paid for and maintained by the
> > Government.
> >
> > > "The whole concept is [that] we should not go into this until someone
> > > shows there is something that's been done that really is a violation of
> > > that neutrality."
> >
> >
> > I give it a max of 4 years before _proof_ of that comes out. Just wait
> > till the short term memory of the american public drifts away, then
> > alter your QoS and blame any service interruptions on "system
> > failures".
> >
> > -JP
> >
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