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Comment Re:deploy broadband? (Score 1) 11

AFIK, ATT has NO plans to provide fiber to the entire state.

That's not relevant to net neutrality, though yes, you're right. And they have taken literally hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars for that purpose (government grants, not customer payments) which they then clearly handed out to shareholders and/or executives because they obviously didn't spend them on last mile internet.

Comment Re:I'm still wondering (Score 1) 169

One way that doesn't attack anyone's mental state is term limits.

It's inappropriate not to attack anyone's mental state. Their lack of competence is exactly the problem. We need for everyone in government, not just congress, to be able to pass at least a basic mental competency test. The People should never be paying for an incompetent to hold a public position, and that's arguably the least important principle at issue.

Comment Re:Embrace and Extend. (Score 1) 51

You're right they're not at the extend phase... yet.

History tells us we should watch out for that.

They deserve all the hate for the late 90's with their extended proprietary JVM or with playing dirty in office file format standards with Open XML. But those are a decade and a half ago.

Microsoft has become worse in many ways over that time, there's no reason to believe they are better in this way as well.

Using a tool and giving back is the premise of open source and giving grief over changed bad behavior is pretty counter productive to progress.

Microsoft is still engaging in a lot of bad behavior, so there's no reason to believe that anything that is good will continue, or that anything that looks good is good.

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