7 Aug
2006
7 Aug
'06
8:28 p.m.
At 7:16 PM -0700 8/7/06, Bruce Lane wrote:
Agreed. As an author (and yes, I have had something published) there
is no way I'm allowing what I'm writing on an "Internet is the
Platform" setup.
I meant betting, but beating seems appropriate as that is what I fear
we'll be getting. Remember we're supposed to be good little zombies
lining the coffers of the corporations.
OTOH, you have
those of us that are writing software, articles, and books,
or creating music and video. You also have people with either very slow,
or no internet access. Plus there are the people that just value their
privacy.
While the first group might sucker into this "Internet is the Platform",
how many of the second group will?
Let me put it this way: Not only 'NO!' but 'FRELL, NO!!!' Am I making
sense, or just rambling, who knows. All I know is that I'm not
the least bit interested in the "Internet is the Platform", and I'm beating
that there are a lot of other people that feel that way. At the same time
I fear the corporations and governments might just force this down our
throats.
You're making plenty of sense, though the "beating" might get
a bit messy (did you mean 'betting?') And "they" are going to have to do a LOT of
forcing before I
would ever give up my right to run my own servers and domains. As
long as my ISP keeps my line up, I'll keep paying them to do so.
Period.
Hope your ISP is being as good about the FCC selling out to the phone
companies. Looks like I'll soon have one bill for my ISP and DSL
line, and that will be to Aracnet rather than Aracnet for the ISP
side and Verizon for the line.
If, further down the road, it turns out that I will
need to
buy something more powerful than a DSL pipe to continue being
self-hosted, then so be it. I ran a dialup FidoNet BBS for nearly
ten years, and I've been self-hosted for my 'net presence nearly as
long. I will NOT give it up without a fight!
Ditto. I've had my own server on the net for as long as there has
been DSL in the area, and I'm paying a lot extra to do this. I just
hope I don't have to switch to a business line in the future, as I'm
not sure I can afford that.
Zane
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