IP: Walled Garden? Too "good" a phrase

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Alan A. Reiter" <reiter () wirelessinternet com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
>
> "Walled Garden" is being used as a phrase with increasing regularity,
> especially in the wireless industry where subscribers are stuck with usually
> paltry data offerings of their carriers.
>
> But "garden" is too nice a term!  Gardens are supposed to be fertile and
> growing.  I use "Walled Prison" and show a picture of a prison cell in my
> presentations.  Someone else suggested "Wall Desert."
>
> Alan
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ip-sub-1 () admin listbox com
> [mailto:owner-ip-sub-1 () admin listbox com]On Behalf Of Dave Farber
> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 4:49 PM
> To: ip-sub-1 () majordomo pobox com
> Subject: IP: A bad day at the computer room
>
>
> It has been a bad day. First:
>
> As sent to Mike Dell
>
> > The purchase of my 8100 series process was very pleasant till I started
> > the system under Windows ME and found myself locked into a version of IE 5
> > that was customized for Dell. While I have no big objection except in
> > principle and realize that the vast majority of your customers are happy
> > with such a browser, I wanted to use the plain old fashion IE5.5 without
> > all the Dells birthday acke and advertisement . After trying without
> > success,  to bypass your WALLED GARDEN.......



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