>At 10:55 AM 11/24/99 -0500, Tamar Frankel wrote:
> >I do not think we disagree. I certainly agree with Larry Lessig, and I did
> >read his book. We disagree on the timing. I am willing to be more patient,
> >and hope that people like you will continue to demand more accountability.
> >I did not conclude that all is lost, so long as I see some progress. The
> >alternatives scare me too. So that is where we disagree. Best wishes.
> >
> >Tamar
>
>Tamar;
richard sexton:
>The alternatives that scare you are the very processes that built the
>Internet to the size... and success... that it is now. I can understand
>this is a very scary thing to somebody that lives and breathes law,
>contracts and corporate rules; nonetheless, all the contracts and
>laws in the world would not have made Apache the NS/MS killer
>or Linux the Windows killer. It's the notion of "the good of the
>community" that is so abused by the ICANN apologists that got us
>here (and it's very unpleasant to see this being abused in the
>name of the blaoted, inefficiant and utterly *captured*
>nightmare that is ICANN.
Richard...one of the strengths of lessig's terribly important book is
that he shows....quite conclusively I believe that these issues are
not the just issues of LAW versus the unfettered net.....but rather
the product of a complex series of interactions of law, with code
(technology), with norms (mores), and with market forces. all of
these can be made to interact with each other and with the internet.
lessig gives some insight into HOW this abomination has happened
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