Re: why Senator Stevens is right on Net Neutrality

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

On 7/6/06, Brian Loe <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/6/06, Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org> wrote:
>
> > Only thing is, the ISP's do get paid, y'know. Yes, this is a business,
> > pure and simple, but it's also ridiculous to ask for money just because
> > your light bulb is shiny. Maybe a few will, pay, most will tell you to
> > stuff it.
> > :)
> >
> >         Gadi.
>
>
> Gee, you just discovered "fee markets"! And just since you penned this
> reply they've created an entire wiki entry for you to expound upon
> your discovery further. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_markets
>
> I can tell already that this won't be obvious enough for some, to
> spell it out: if they'd tell me to stuff it on my shiny bulb, they're
> almost guaranteed to tell me to stuff it on my QoS uses as well,
> unless that use is to their advantage. A free market allows for a
> company to attempt such ideas and fail or succeed on the idea's merit
> and resonance with the company's customers.

And you are Free to travel back in time and take advantage of a
monopoly for a hundred years, using the money generated from ownership
of that monopoly (in addition to govt subsidies) to build a nationwide
network of wires that no individual can come close to competing with.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_(1885-2005)#National_monopoly

-JP

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