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Re: Nanog Mentioned in TED Video: Jonathan Zittrain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Oct 25 20:58:58 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <583194B6-B8DA-4F67-A29E-12BA80C9D926@delong.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:56:54 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2009, at 6:59 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> On Oct 24, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Israel Lopez-LISTS wrote:
>>
>>> Remember when youtube went down?
>>> Mr. Zittrain briefly mentions nanog during his TED talk in July
>>> 2009.
>>>
>>> http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_is_a_random_act_of_kindness.html
>>
>> Been discussed.
>>
>> He's obviously wrong about some things. No one does anything
>> without getting paid. But he is kinda right in some ways too.
>>
> Lots of us actually do lots of things without getting paid.
Mea culpa! You are (most obviously) correct.
I meant to say "no one passes a packet without getting paid",
specifically in response to his passing the beer in the stadium analogy.
While it is true there are a few packets passed without payment, I'm
pretty sure it's 0% of the total, to several decimal places.
Thank you for pointing out my error.
--
TTFN,
patrick
> We also do some things for which we get paid.
>
> Owen
>
