[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 10:14:03 -0500
Scott Chilcote <scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com> wrote:

> I don't think that anyone is opposed to Google (or any other business,
> great or otherwise, American, foreign, or international) furthering
> their stockholder's interests.  What I think that a lot of the public
> opposes is business that seeks to gain by using their financial might
> to limit the rights of their customers.  For example, the right to
> benefit from competition, the right to protect their privacy, or the
> right to develop new alternatives to the services that they control.
> 
>    Scott C.

I don't like Google. They scanned everyone's books without seeking
copyright holders' permission, and at one point planned to sell those
unauthorizedly copied books. I can show you five other people with five
equally valid complaints about Google.

But in this case they're busting up an oligopoly that's ruining our
competitiveness compared to folks of almost every other industrialized
country.

Even bad guys do good things once in a while, and I'd love to have
fiber into my house, even if I had to run *everything* encrypted over
the wire.

Here in Orlando, I'm paying $55/month for 20Mbps down, 1Mbps up. If it
weren't for Brighthouse, I'd have to sign a year agreement with
Centurylink to get 3Mbps down.

Yeah, Google sucks, but for whatever reason, they're solving a big
problem.

SteveT

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