Well, I live about 30 miles outside of Des Moines, and I don't have access to DSL. I'd LOVE to have it!!! In talking to some friends who LEFT Qwest, after having worked for US West for over 30 yrs...they see absolutely NO HOPE for EVER getting DSL here...its too small a market. They even tell me that Qwest doesn't WANT these small phone markets...that before too long, we'll be getting dialtone from someone else. Anybody else want Qwest service?? They can have mine!!!!
I see a major problem for Be, if they were to open source the whole thing. BeIA, their major source of income now, is highly dependent on BeOS, so.....wouldn't they be giving away EVERYTHING????
Unfortunately, Dune doesn't compare to something like 2001....although the sequence of the book and movie for that was slightly skewed..... Reading other Arthur C Clarke makes one wonder...who wrote 2001...Arthur C Clarke, or Stanley Kubrick????
I remember, prior to the breakup of AT&T, how it cost extra to have a touch-tone phone, there were only 2 long-distance service providers (AT&T and MCI) and there were extra charges for using a modem on a private phone line. After the breakup, all of a sudden, companies started coming out with new technology!! Now, we have 56k modems, instead of 1200bps, we have a multiplicity of long distance providers, and a whole plethora of technology that never would have come about, if there had not been competition to AT&T. What is going to happen, if competition is allowed in the software industry??? Will we suddenly get better browsers, or better word processors?? Maybe we could even get a Windoze compatible OS that does NOT crash every other day?? Who knows....but it WILL be interesting to find out!!!
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Well, I live about 30 miles outside of Des Moines, and I don't have access to DSL. I'd LOVE to have it!!! In talking to some friends who LEFT Qwest, after having worked for US West for over 30 yrs...they see absolutely NO HOPE for EVER getting DSL here...its too small a market. They even tell me that Qwest doesn't WANT these small phone markets...that before too long, we'll be getting dialtone from someone else. Anybody else want Qwest service?? They can have mine!!!!
I see a major problem for Be, if they were to open source the whole thing. BeIA, their major source of income now, is highly dependent on BeOS, so.....wouldn't they be giving away EVERYTHING????
Unfortunately, Dune doesn't compare to something like 2001....although the sequence of the book and movie for that was slightly skewed..... Reading other Arthur C Clarke makes one wonder...who wrote 2001...Arthur C Clarke, or Stanley Kubrick????
...quite evidently _I'm_ not in ANYONE's Outlook address book....I haven't received the virus yet!!!
I remember, prior to the breakup of AT&T, how it cost extra to have a touch-tone phone, there were only 2 long-distance service providers (AT&T and MCI) and there were extra charges for using a modem on a private phone line. After the breakup, all of a sudden, companies started coming out with new technology!! Now, we have 56k modems, instead of 1200bps, we have a multiplicity of long distance providers, and a whole plethora of technology that never would have come about, if there had not been competition to AT&T. What is going to happen, if competition is allowed in the software industry??? Will we suddenly get better browsers, or better word processors?? Maybe we could even get a Windoze compatible OS that does NOT crash every other day?? Who knows....but it WILL be interesting to find out!!!