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FC: Are free ISPs free? Juno says users must donate processor time
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 10:17:25 -0500
[As one science fiction writer would say, TANSTAAFL. This is merely the natural evolution of the market for "free" services, and is hardly objectionable. True, it raises some privacy and security questions, but nobody's forcing you to use Juno, and pay ISPs are hardly expensive. --Declan]
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/01/2249220&mode=thread How Free Are Free ISPs? posted by vergil on Thursday February 01, @05:06PM from the check-that-clickwrap dept. Free ISPs have been especially hard hit by the current dot-com downturn. Juno Online Services (recently smacked by a Temporary Restraining Order involving a patent infringement scuffle with rival NetZero) has developed a novel way of extracting megahertz -- and potential megabucks -- from its subscriber base. According to a 2/1/2001 InternetNews article, Juno's "Virtual Supercomputer Network" aims to replicate the success of SETI@home by pooling the processing potential of its new subscribers and selling the combined computational power. According to Juno's new service agreement, Juno's subscribers "agree" to let Juno download, upload and run software from their PCs, and may be required "to leave" their computers "on at all times." ********* Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:39:20 -0500 To: declan () well com From: Philo <philo () radix net> Subject: Fwd: [visbas-OT] Bad Juno. Sit! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Posted to a mailing list I'm on. Forwarded with permission. Philo
From: "Cavanaugh, Bill" <bill_cavanaugh () es adp com> Subject: [visbas-OT] Bad Juno. Sit! http://help.juno.com/privacy/agreement.html Read section 2.5. You, too, can be a part of a distributed computing project. Whether you like it or not. And fuck you very much. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: visbas-OT-unsubscribe () egroups com
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