[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

[Topher]

On 09/10/2012 02:07 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
> On Mon Sep 10 2012 01:40:59 PM EDT, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>
>> On 09/10/2012 01:39 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>>> On Mon Sep 10 2012 11:43:47 AM EDT, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>> September 13. For $70 per month, residents can get Gigabit Internet,
>>>> and for $120 per month, they can get Gigabit Internet service plus
>>>> TV. There's even a "free" Internet tier with 5Mbps down and 1Mbps
>>>> up. The free tier requires a one-time construction fee of $300 or 12
>>>> monthly payments of $25, but Google guarantees the free service for
>>>> seven years. **
>>>>
>>>> About the same price the rest of
>>>> us pay for about 3% of that bandwidth.
>>>>
>>>> I wonder where Google with go with
>>>> this next?     i.e., if that $70 represents
>>>> a true service price, I'd think the door
>>>> would be open to many other cities,
>>>> on the way to creating Google Net.
>>>>
>>>> Even that "free" service works out to
>>>> about $45 a year, or less if Google
>>>> extends it.
>>> Google's primary business is selling ads.   To sell ads more
>>> effectively they try to know as much about you as possible.   Would you
>>> really want them being able to see *all* of you data traffic?   This is
>>> a real conflict of interest (if you believe in the principles of
>>> net-neutrality).
>> Isn't this what Comcast and everyone else do already?   is it worse?
> Comcast's primary business is not selling advertising.  Therein lies a huge difference.

How sure are you of that?