[52997] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Fri Oct 25 13:27:46 2002
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210251239590.29380-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:27:08 -0400
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 13:14 -0400 10/25/02, Sean Donelan wrote:
>Are there some down-sides? Sure. But who really needs the end-to-end
>principle or uncontrolled innovation.
The context of the above is, of course, sarcastic. But it reminded
me of a quote that once appeared on mailing list that is germane to
this. The quote was uttered in 1824 or so, by the inventor of the
telegraph. The quote lamented that the funding needed to deploy an
innovative concept was held by the folks that were the most
threatened by innovation - i.e., they made money with out the latest
new fangled thing so whatever the new fangled thing did, it was sure
to be a threat to their current income stream.
Does anyone know this quote?
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