Hypocrisy? Perhaps. But maybe he just wised up in his old age.
It would only hypocrisy if he got where he is now because of drunk driving.
The argument is that the US only devloped as rapidly, and successfully, as it has because of weak IP control in its early years. And it's now protecting that position, and denying that route for development to others, by advocating strong IP protection. That's the hypocrisy.
I'm surprised to hear that, I would have thought that anywhere with an urban population density would have been considered worth cabling.
Oh, it's been cabled, but the cables haven't been activated, as NTL can't afford to...
Surely, if you're only 10 miles from here, you must be quite close to an exchange?
I'm only about a mile from the local exchange - that's not the problem. The exchange simply hasn't been upgraded.
I realize that there a still quite a few exchanges that haven't yet been upgraded to ADSL
The majority of Scottish exchanges haven't been upgraded. Some 60% of them, in fact. Basically, if you're not in Edinburgh or Glasgow, forget ADSL from BT. And the cable coverage isn't much better.
but, in order to find out which ones they should upgrade next, BT launched a media campaign to find out where the demand was.
BT have set the activation threshold of my local exchancge at 400. Current interest: 31. And now you can't register interest directly with BT themselves, you must go via an ISP. It's a joke.
If it's any consolation to you, I actually had to move from Ireland to Scotland to get Broadband, my home-run business depends on it.
My home-based business runs on 2 BRI ISDN lines, and 3 POTS lines...
Notwithstanding the monopoly they might be able to get among really rural customers, they're going to have a tough time gaining much of a toe-hold in the Scottish market.
I don't think so - I live in a medium-sized town in the urban central belt of Scotland, only 10 miles from Edinburgh, and I cannot get any form of broadband connection, and not much likliehood of getting one from anytime soon from NTL, or BT. And about 60% of Scottish homes are in the same position.
I don't know about Crieff and Cambletown, both small towns in rural areas, but I rather suspect they have neither cable or ADSL currently available, or planned.
> They are a government inforced monopoly, what do they care about PR?
Um, no, they are a private corporation. They certainly do have a dominant position in the UK market, but they are no more a government enforced monopoly than AT&T are.
BT have substantial competion, in both the domestic and business sectors, both from the cable operators (NTL, TeleWest), and several long-haul providers (Thus, Energis, C&W).
Yes, Tesco are curfently number one, but that doesn't mean they ahve the field to themselves. There is a good deal of competition: Tesco are top, but are chased very close by Sainsbury and Asda.
And now that Asda is owned Walmart, I expect the competion will get even hotter. There are in no position to be complacent, or abuse a dominant position.
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Hypocrisy? Perhaps. But maybe he just wised up in his old age.
It would only hypocrisy if he got where he is now because of drunk driving.
The argument is that the US only devloped as rapidly, and successfully, as it has because of weak IP control in its early years. And it's now protecting that position, and denying that route for development to others, by advocating strong IP protection. That's the hypocrisy.
Don't think that word means what you think it means.
It does in British English.
I'm surprised to hear that, I would have thought that anywhere with an urban population density would have been considered worth cabling.
Oh, it's been cabled, but the cables haven't been activated, as NTL can't afford to...
Surely, if you're only 10 miles from here, you must be quite close to an exchange?
I'm only about a mile from the local exchange - that's not the problem. The exchange simply hasn't been upgraded.
I realize that there a still quite a few exchanges that haven't yet been upgraded to ADSL
The majority of Scottish exchanges haven't been upgraded. Some 60% of them, in fact. Basically, if you're not in Edinburgh or Glasgow, forget ADSL from BT. And the cable coverage isn't much better.
but, in order to find out which ones they should upgrade next, BT launched a media campaign to find out where the demand was.
BT have set the activation threshold of my local exchancge at 400. Current interest: 31. And now you can't register interest directly with BT themselves, you must go via an ISP. It's a joke.
If it's any consolation to you, I actually had to move from Ireland to Scotland to get Broadband, my home-run business depends on it.
My home-based business runs on 2 BRI ISDN lines, and 3 POTS lines...
Notwithstanding the monopoly they might be able to get among really rural customers, they're going to have a tough time gaining much of a toe-hold in the Scottish market.
I don't think so - I live in a medium-sized town in the urban central belt of Scotland, only 10 miles from Edinburgh, and I cannot get any form of broadband connection, and not much likliehood of getting one from anytime soon from NTL, or BT. And about 60% of Scottish homes are in the same position.
I don't know about Crieff and Cambletown, both small towns in rural areas, but I rather suspect they have neither cable or ADSL currently available, or planned.
It wasn't chalk IBM used - it was stenciled paint. Chalk washes off, paint doesn't.
Seven Layer Communications Ltd, based in Scotland, (who produce networking software), have the delightful web site URL of http://www.slayer.com/.
> They are a government inforced monopoly, what do they care about PR?
Um, no, they are a private corporation. They certainly do have a dominant position in the UK market, but they are no more a government enforced monopoly than AT&T are.
BT have substantial competion, in both the domestic and business sectors, both from the cable operators (NTL, TeleWest), and several long-haul providers (Thus, Energis, C&W).
Unless it was released as open source sometime I didn't notice you still have to pay for Motif which pretty much rules it out in the Linux world.
You must have been asleep! It's available for free, but under conditions, and RMS doesn't like the licence...
http://www.opengroup.org/openmotif/license/
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/motif.html
Yes, Tesco are curfently number one, but that doesn't mean they ahve the field to themselves. There is a good deal of competition: Tesco are top, but are chased very close by Sainsbury and Asda.
And now that Asda is owned Walmart, I expect the competion will get even hotter. There are in no position to be complacent, or abuse a dominant position.