Given Google's liberal attitude towards "other people's information", wouldn't connecting to their high-speed network be tantamount to hooking a main-line between Google and your desktop? Forgive my paranoid naivete, but I just don't trust the big G.
-E -----Original Message----- From: larry price <[email protected]> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Wed, Feb 10, 2010 9:11 pm Subject: [Eug-lug] Google Fiber Network Trial Most of you have probably already heard something about Google's plan to trial a fast fiber to the home service somewhere in the United States. You can read about it straight from the source. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/think-big-with-gig-our-experimental.html I would like to to encourage everyone who gets this message to go to http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options Right now. And fill out the form nominating Eugene as a test site for the advanced high speed network. Things worth mentioning. Eugene has no current fiber to the home provider. Eugene has a highly educated workforce and a relative scarcity of local employers. Eugene has a high percentage of telecommuters. Eugene has a lot of artists, musicians, dancers and others for whom a true high speed network could open new markets and create new economic opportunities. Eugene has an existing public utility that could partner with google. And is also the location of an internet peering facility that is currently underutilized (OIX http://www.oregon-ix.net/ ) A high speed network would create new jobs and would reshape the economic landscape of Eugene and Lane County. Please pass this on and encourage everyone you know who cares about the economic future of the lower willamette valley to visit http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options and nominate Eugene as a test site. Thank you for giving this your time and attention. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug =
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