Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> | The addresses, he says, were "frightening" -- and made the need
> | for directories "self-evident". Building those was his next project.
> | And that's where he first came up against the idea of the central
> | authority that everyone would use for everything. Imagine that: it
> | would be incredibly slow, it would be incredibly expensive -- but
> | it would be spam-free.
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A Microsoft engineer outlined this brave new world of the Internet in an
essay presented to the IEEE a few years back. Of course, Microsoft saw
itself as the gatekeeper for the Internet. In other words, pay us or no
net. It would be a whole new Microsoft Tax.
Let use hope that Microsoft aren't able to bribe enough politicians to have
this nightmare foisted onto the world.
Ian
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