Perhaps the new networks should be owned by the public, as it is where it
works, instead of waiting and waiting and waiting for private companies to
expand the networks, often with assistance through public grants and tax
breaks. Once the networks are created with public money, they could be
maintained by private companies for the benefit of the public--as utilities.
We all know about how far a suggestion such as this will go given
the current political climate in the United States.
Steve
Too bad the evil US DoD invented ARPANET with OUR valuable tax dollars,
and spent OUR money for so many years on a silly Defense project, then
allowed that Brit Tim Berners-Lee at CERN [that evil place where they're
looking for the God particle] to GIVE AWAY his WWW code for FREE--and
have the nerve to start the W3C to make us follow their standards, not
ours.
Should have been corporate. Then we'd have nothing...or maybe the Swiss
would own the Internet. That could be interesting [having worked for a
Swiss company]. That might work better that it does now. I love/hate the
Swiss, but they're never boring.
Betty
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