Hi PJ,
It may be justified, but it's not the
solution. Did you not
follow the
election? Did you ever hear such
malarkey in all your born days? Do
you
seriously believe that those folks
can run or regulate the Internet
without
destroying it?
I agree that Government is not always the
solution, but do you think that
we should not have consumer protection laws and
anti-trust legislation
because they rely on
national governments? I would much
rather have that, albeit flawed and
corrupted, oversight than rely on
corporations who's only responsibility is
to shareholders and directors
(and
more
worrying, employed executives).
I perhaps do not express my main
concerns with sufficient clarity - I
suspect that some people see my posts and
think "The nasty man is
attacking Google, who have
given us the wonderful
Android", but that is not what I mean. Companies
who we distrust give us free,
useful, stuff; Microsoft with, say, RTF and
ODBC; Apple (with
others) CUPS and
WebKit. So we are likely to again sacrifice control for
convenience, because it
is easy. I certainly am not RMS or DMD, but I
believe that they have
contributed more to the internet and the common good than than, say,
Mark
Zuckerberg, or even
Brin and Page.
When Eben Moglen discusses carrying devices
around with us which spy
on us all of the time, I
don't think he means
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