[TriLUG] Time Warner price increase

[Scott Lambdin]

We should start a commune.  Think of the DnD games.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:05 AM, dsandif <dsandif at email.unc.edu> wrote:

> Not so much a tangent me thinks, eh?, I think its loong over due that folks
> in the triangle area start seriously looking at this option, especially now
> during these times when despite the economic down turn we're dealing with,
> some companies still prefer to stick it to their clientèle as  opposed  to
> working with them, but then I guess business is still just business and we
> geeks are just splitting  hairs every time something like this happens...
>
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>
>> As far as I remember, it was sent off to the review board, which they said
>> could take a few years before they're able to determine the legality of
>> passing a bill like this. I could be wrong.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Neil L. Little
>> Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:54 AM
>> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
>> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Time Warner price increase
>>
>> Greenlight is an independent ISP. It is separate from the City of Wilson
>> government.
>> The loan for the build out was backed by City Government but Greenlight is
>> carrying the debt.
>> Wilson isnt really a small town anymore. Its about the size of Cary and
>> there a lot of the old tobbaco money.
>> Also, remember BB&T has its main HQ there.
>>
>> There have been rumours for years of the Town of Cary building out its own
>> fiber network. Also
>> remember that while the "Greenlight bill" was circulating through the
>> legislature the town of Charlotte
>> was quietly watching what went down as they are in the midst of building
>> out their own fiber infrastructure.
>>
>> 73,
>> Neil, WA4AZL
>>
>> Jason Sullivan wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:14 PM, dsandif <dsandif at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Why can't we do what the brilliant folks in Wilson NC did and start our
>>>> own
>>>> ISP?, why do we have to put up with this crap in the first place!?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Government run ISPs?  Why, that's SOCIALISM!
>>>
>>> Seriously, though, Wilson's a much smaller town, and they floated a
>>> bond to build out the infrastructure required to reach the houses.
>>> The money is (and probably always will be) mostly in the last mile.
>>>
>>> Granted, it only cost them two years' worth of the TWC CEO's
>>> (reported) salary.  So maybe there's hope after all.
>>>
>>> Instead of building out an infrastructure, though, why couldn't
>>> someone do a co-op (small 's' socialism!) ISP running on the already
>>> installed TWC infrastructure?  I mean, Earthlink gets to do it, so
>>> you'd think there'd be room for other players.  I hear, though, that
>>> there's some pretty nasty stuff TWC does behind the scenes to make it
>>> hard for third parties.
>>>
>>> To fully extrapolate this tangent back to something more relevant, do
>>> the Wilson folks use linux anywhere in their system?  Maybe it's time
>>> to see if that guy in Wilson wants to come give a talk about setting
>>> something like this up?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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