[133908] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Mon Dec 20 01:11:48 2010
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:11:42 -0800
In-Reply-To: <A5F6B239-F38B-4385-B6B0-088926CFF749@delong.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>, "Richard A Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Yes... This is where the "market makes it best" philosophy fails. When
> the
> market has become entrenched in one way of doing things, a better way
> can face serious opposition because of this very fact.
The problem is that we don't *have* a market in many places. We have a
monopoly provider and the people have no alternative in too many places,
what we need in those places is a market. One provider does not a
"market" make. It is a "company store" at that point.
