Without net neutrality Slashdot's parent company could have blocked any attempts by Digg to prosper. Microsoft could have blocked Google. YouTube wouldn't have amounted to much compared to Google Video. Net Neutrality helps great ideas become reality. We would never even know about many of the little startups that have become the great sites that they are today.
It's amazing how often Microsoft tries to take over and try to control any standard by just changing it a little bit. Hopefully Microsoft just keeps on showing its true colours and it's EOOXML is going to lose this battle.
Hopefully the word "proprietary" when it is associated with software becomes as disgusting as the f-word in mainstream society.
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Just sit behind a Tor Network (http://tor.eff.org/) and post away. All this work by the EU will be wasted.
Without net neutrality Slashdot's parent company could have blocked any attempts by Digg to prosper. Microsoft could have blocked Google. YouTube wouldn't have amounted to much compared to Google Video. Net Neutrality helps great ideas become reality. We would never even know about many of the little startups that have become the great sites that they are today.
It's amazing how often Microsoft tries to take over and try to control any standard by just changing it a little bit. Hopefully Microsoft just keeps on showing its true colours and it's EOOXML is going to lose this battle. Hopefully the word "proprietary" when it is associated with software becomes as disgusting as the f-word in mainstream society.