[GRLUG] NOT LINUX - net neutrality

[Bob Kline]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
> > To constrain the conversation
> > a little bit, I'd be talking about
> > home service here.  Others might
> > be talking about their place of work,
> > where the cost picture can be yet
> > different.
>
> Only in terms of how much money they have available to spend, and
> sometimes not even there. If you want to divide the market into two
> players*, "consumers" and "businesses", you need to recognize that
> ISPs which cater to one group will offer different services than what
> cater to the other group. Getting enterprise services for consumer
> prices is not fiscally sustainable, and Net Neutrality has been all
> about forcing enterprise ISP properties on consumer ISPs.
>
> * And this alone is a false dichotomy; they both have to deal with the
> same thing upstream, the distinction is how they manage to pay for it
> by charging downstream. Your real problem is that you see yourself as
> somehow different from a business in terms of options.
>
>
Are you sure it's false?  If Comcast
plays games with BitTorrent on my
link to some remote server, does
some company with a higher priced
ISP, or its own wires,  suffer the
same fate?

As for my problem, let's stick with the
issues...  Technology and business
rather than psychology and innuendo.

   -- Bob

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