[GRLUG] NOT LINUX

[Richard Nienhuis]

I'm pretty sure Comcast will sell whatever they think they can make a
profit on.  I'm a more willing to believe that google will have a decent
system to anonymize the data they collect.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM, 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?
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