On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Ken Restivo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > If this kind of crap continues, it might provide some boost for community wireless > activities like BARWN, NoCat, and SeattleWireless. > > http://tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/8528 > > I've given up on trying to convince my neighbors to forego easy, > reliable, "private", dumping-priced $35/month SBC/Yapoo DSL service (or > "promotionally-priced" Comcast cable modem) for a complicated, weird, > flaky, expensive, "shared" community WiFi network.
stuff that's complicated and hard to use is generally the domain of hobbyists, early adopters and those with overriding commercial interests... Expecting it to come along faster than it is ureasonable, as is expecting other people to work extra hard on your behalf for free. If if your put more in you get more out... > I think after a few years of "broadband consolidation" shenanigans, they > may be more eager to try something more open. By then, I can only hope > that the gear and know-how needed to build community networks will still > be available, open, cheap... and legal. > > - -ken > - -- > - --------------- > The world's most affordable web hosting. > http://www.nearlyfreespeech.net > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE/MebBe8HF+6xeOIcRAunVAJ4v9wRb22591/7o6Zzf3nhFacD+9wCg3n5v > 45gHx81HGwz6JfrMSJhBBaQ= > =npiF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
