[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

[John-Thomas Richards]

On Mon Sep 10 2012 02:08:17 PM EDT, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:

> 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?

I haven't checked their latest SEC filing but I'm fairly certain their primary sources of revenue are internet and television.  
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john-thomas
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