Comments on: Sidewalk Neutrality

By: sean

sean — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 08:45:18 +0000

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By: Stu Rubinow

Stu Rubinow — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:23:31 +0000

of course: McCartney

By: Stu Rubinow

Stu Rubinow — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:22:22 +0000

Good column, but Lennon/McCarney had the idea first (Revolver, 1966):

If you take a walk, Iâ€™ll tax your feet.
Taxman.
â€˜Cos Iâ€™m the Taxman,
Yeah, Iâ€™m the Taxman.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 31 May 2006 09:15:53 +0000

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By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Tue, 30 May 2006 22:08:33 +0000

Bits are free, and they always will be. But packets cost money, as do routers, cables, network administrators, and software.

Unless we can convince the Easter Bunny to build us a nice broadband network, of course.

By: fp

fp — Tue, 30 May 2006 21:14:15 +0000

Richard, I liked these bits:

“He said he understood charging for something real like a stroll but charging for bits? That’s like charging me to use the number 7? How would you even do that? Why would you want to? Next they’ll charge me to look at trees by allocating the spectrum — someone is sure to bid on the frequency for green.”

By: Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett — Tue, 30 May 2006 20:25:52 +0000

Until I read this I thought Frankston was kinda smart:

He asked how one can meter the exchange of bits — they aren’t real so how could you track them and bill for them. You can’t just look at a bit and ask it how valuable it is. It’s as if he charged me for looking at the signs across the street. After all, he’ll make enough money when I walk to the stores and even more when I come back with valuable purchases.

No longer.

By: gembase

gembase — Tue, 30 May 2006 16:48:34 +0000

Thanks for the link. great one.