And at least some of the mayors of Utoipa cities apparently want it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4ONiV_iRZZI
Lloyd Brown Systems Administrator Fulton Supercomputing Lab Brigham Young University http://marylou.byu.edu On 04/17/2013 03:38 PM, Lonnie Olson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:57 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would be very, very concerned about Google buying Utopia. Leasing >> capacity as a provider, ok. But introducing yet another monopoly when we >> were promised competition would be emotionally disconcerting to me. > > I agree, but the pessimist in me doubts Google would just join as a > Utopia provider. Google has a historical tendency to want to control > all of that. I think it would be more likely that Google would just > buy Utopia. Since Utopia is still struggling, I think the Utopia > cities would jump on the chance to have it sold to get their money > back if Google was to offer. > > If Google did neither and just competed with Utopia it would be > disaster. Utopia can't compete with Google, and Utopia cities would > be left with defaulted bonds. That would be sad. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
