On 8/25/05, Arik Baratz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 25/08/05, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They are planing on blanketing the world with free wifi, putting out > > of business the small business that are doing the same thing, and > > preventing places that offer wifi such as coffee houses from turning > > it off when they want customers to come and buy drinks, not use free > > wifi and buy nothing or stay for hours keeping other customers out. > > Sorry, but this is the meaning of competition. It's much like Linux is > putting (or will put) the commercial OS makers out of business because > it's free. And if the coffee shops don't like freeloaders, they can > kick them out. If you come into a coffee shop and read a book for hour > you will also be kicked out, wifi or no wifi.
Not to mention that once WiFi is available everywere people will just use it in the parks and beaches and won't have to occupy a table at a cafe in order to access it in the first place... --amos ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
