Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 11:27 +0530, Gautam John wrote: >> Should the Internet be owned and maintained by the government, just >> like the highways? Vint Cerf, the "father of the Internet" and > > highways in many parts of the world are not owned and maintained by the > govt. e.g. france, italy, spain. it puzzles me that americans, with > their supposed aversion to government funding of public goods (e.g. > healthcare), leave roads to the government. the potholes on the 101 > could compete with some delhi roads!
I'm a believer in privatized roads, but my opinion seems to be less than widely held. -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
