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?
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