Russell Senior wrote: >... I happen to think that the public (the >users of the network) needs to seize control of the last mile >infrastructure (either by purchase or by building its own). The >current ownership/regulation model is broken. >
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:30:49PM -0700, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > I concur. How might it be accomplished? And once it is accomplished, how > do we stop the mile post from being moved? As much as I dislike many of Comcast's policies, they were the ones that built their network, decades of hard work while we were indifferent and uninvolved in the effort. Now that they've finished the heavy lifting, what right do we have to take it away from them? If you want their Portland network, you can offer them enough money that they will gladly sell it to you. If you want a fiber network instead, that costs about $1000 per home initial investment, plus ongoing operations and maintenance. Start writing checks. Don't take the money from schools and roads and community protection. If you want the community to own the next network, "how that might be accomplished" is by putting effort into building it, and convincing others to do likewise. Right now, I am putting in 80+ hours a week on the assumption that Server Sky will be that next network, in 5 or 10 years. I'm hoping it will be an open network, and I'm attempting to engage the local open source community to help. Some are. More will. But whether a large share of the community gets involved is not my decision. As a member of the community, it is your own personal decision. And what will that be? "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
