[8681] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EFF Op-Ed on National Information Infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Bachmann)
Tue Nov 30 15:24:13 1993
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Tue, 30 Nov 93 13:50:03 EST.)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 14:20:20 -0600
From: Dave Bachmann <bachmann@austin.ibm.com>
> While I am not in general opposed to EFF's goals or tactics on many issues,
> I _deeply_ resent the notion that I should not be _allowed_ to sign up for
> an asymmetric service if such service is cheaper than symmetric service and
> meets my needs.
I think you should be able to sign up for an asymmetric service if you
want to, but _I_ would resent not being able to get a symmetric
service, if Consolidated TelcoCable decided they could make more money
allocating all the bandwidth to 6000 channels of Oprah's Real Life
Channel so they could sell ad time on it.
dave
