[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - Google fiber

[Raymond McLaughlin]

john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:06:49AM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:
>> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/10-Reasons-Why-a-Google-Fiber-Network-Could-Reshape-the-ISP-Landscape-732801/
>>
>> A good set of points showing why Google's fiber effort could be a good
>> thing.  As it is, Comcast and others simply want to milk the existing
>> system - bandwidth tiers, monthly byte limits - all within the same,
>> tired system.  i.e., there is is no real competition at this point.
>>
>>   -- Bob
> 
> I don't know that I'd trust Google.  They're an advertising company.
> They can already tell what I had for breakfast based on the web sites I
> visit in the morning.  That's scary.  If they have access to my entire
> stream....yikes.

True enough, but *any* private corporation is, by definition, a self
interested entity, and so can only be trusted to pursue it's own best
interests. (Public corporations are *supposed* to to be different ...)