On 12/4/06, Nick FitzGerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It is not just that simple that the evils of capitalism will out whereever its grubby money is cast...
As best I can understand that sentence I'm immediately provoked into asking you what you do for a living? Do you work in trade only or rely on donations?
There were _tons_ of people from the _inside_ of the science project who really should have known better than pushing their 60's liberal hippie quasi-academic crapola that "information wants to be free" and the Internet _as it was then_ was clearly the only/best model of extending the reach of that freedom. Far too many of these jerk-offs complicitly joined the rapid deployment of the Internet as it was then into the commercial space and are at least as directly responsible for the crapola we have now as the capitalists are for layering their existant business models onto TCP/IP.
This seems like a dramatically simplified, historical account of how we "got" the Internet. While the protocol might not be what we want NOW, who knew THEN? It was all new, to everyone. We weren't ever expected to run out of IP addresses either, remember? _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
