[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - Google fiber

[Jonathan Jesse]

There is a facebook group or fan page for bringing this to Grand Rapids
already

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:37 AM, Raymond McLaughlin
<driveray at ameritech.net>wrote:

> 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 ...)
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