Submission + - Paul Visie speaks on Fleecing of SF Muni-WiFi
PublicNet SF Coalition writes: "Here is some great food for thought from property rights to San Francisco Muni-WiFi by one of the pioneers of the Internet."
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http://public.freemuni.net/content/view/22/1/1/3/
Paul Vixie, one of the people who helped build the Internet (BIND, sendmail, cron, ISC, PAIX, etc.), spoke at the Commonwealth Club on May 10, 2006:
"I am sad to report that the great vision and ambition that helped create the San Francisco water department is nowhere to be found in the current administration.
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"Right now a lot of Internet traffic from one neighborhood to another flows through Palo Alto or San Jose or Sacramento, and our eyeballs are used as negotiating tokens cash flow wars. We could do away with all of that if folks like Mayor Rolph or City Engineer O'Shaughnessy (who are jointly credited with creating the San Francisco water system) were making our wireless Internet decisions.
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"I said I was sad to report on our wireless Internet plans and that's the reason. San Francisco as a vassal. Ouch. Was never meant to be."
Read the entire speech on property rights in the digital age at http://public.freemuni.net/content/view/22/1/"
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http://public.freemuni.net/content/view/22/1/1/3/
Paul Vixie, one of the people who helped build the Internet (BIND, sendmail, cron, ISC, PAIX, etc.), spoke at the Commonwealth Club on May 10, 2006:
"I am sad to report that the great vision and ambition that helped create the San Francisco water department is nowhere to be found in the current administration.
[...]
"Right now a lot of Internet traffic from one neighborhood to another flows through Palo Alto or San Jose or Sacramento, and our eyeballs are used as negotiating tokens cash flow wars. We could do away with all of that if folks like Mayor Rolph or City Engineer O'Shaughnessy (who are jointly credited with creating the San Francisco water system) were making our wireless Internet decisions.
[...]
"I said I was sad to report on our wireless Internet plans and that's the reason. San Francisco as a vassal. Ouch. Was never meant to be."
Read the entire speech on property rights in the digital age at http://public.freemuni.net/content/view/22/1/"
