On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Sean Donelan wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
Yep. The evil empires have a hundred years of experience dealing with regulation. If the regulators define what the Internet is or isn't, instead of the marketplace, I don't know if people would recognize it anymore. Common carriers can have lots of regulations, but most of the regulations just end up shielding the carrier from liability. They can just say the government makes us do it, even though the tariff was written by the company itself, and pass along the extra costs to the consumer. AT&T was very dull, but profitable essentially the entire time it was heavily regulated. What color should Princess telephones be this year?
Don't throw me in the briar patch :-)
I won't but blaine might :) Seriously though, phew! we were agreeing all this time! :)
The marketplace is messy. Regulation is seductive because it appears to be cleaner.
Cleaner... for who exactly? The miles of code required to figure out the mess created by the regulations? the consumers? ugh :( That's the deception we need to dispell.