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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Mar 20 10:19:43 2014
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <201403201439.59967.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 10:18:59 -0400
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On Mar 20, 2014, at 08:39 , Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 09:06:47 PM Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> The angle on my right shoulder wants to congratulate a
>> "tier one" (whatever the F that means) provider for
>> finally admitting, in writing, in public, from a lawyer,
>> what the rest of us have known for decades.
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> Every time the market has troubled the status quo, networks=20
> have failed to find ways that adapt to that market. The=20
> market ends up working around the network.
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> Napster and all the goodness that followed it, is one such=20
> example; until iTunes adapted. And yes, iTunes is NOT the=20
> network.
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> Now the OTT's are driving the network hard, and the network=20
> des not want to adapt (perhaps calling in the FCC is=20
> adapting... not).
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> So expect the market to work around this as well. The=20
> network keeps getting left behind...
"The market" can only "work around" things if there is a functioning =
market. Monopolies are not a functioning market.
There will be a solution - in fact, there is today. Doesn't mean it is =
optimal. In fact, in the presence of a monopoly, it is pretty much =
guaranteed to be sub-optimal.
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TTFN,
patrick
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