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Re: [News] 'Bandwidth Monopoly' Under Attack, Wants to Be Free/Open

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____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:12 : \____

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>
>> When bandwidth is free
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Monopolists have, so far, convinced people in both parties that they are
>>| essential to the maintenance of the Internet. They are not. The Internet
>>| was a network-of-networks from the beginning, and must become one again.
>>| 
>>| Let 2009 begin the task of breaking this monopoly, of freeing the bits, and
>>| of getting economic growth going again.
>> `----
>>
>> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=3226
>>
> 
> The internet has always run on telco networks..  it's just that it used
> to be paid for by universities, libraries, governments, military and so
> on.  In recessionary times, who should pay?

People pay their ISPs.

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