Doug's Inner Net News
News and views from a software developer's perspective
Saturday, February 01, 2003
From Doc Searls: The Net was built for fat, symmetrical, end-to-end sharing of everything, with no value-adding intermediator in the middle. It wasn't built so big dumb companies could use it as a one-way sluice for their own "content." Yeah, the Net'll support that, but that's not what users want it for.
News and views from a software developer's perspective
Saturday, February 01, 2003From Doc Searls: The Net was built for fat, symmetrical, end-to-end sharing of everything, with no value-adding intermediator in the middle. It wasn't built so big dumb companies could use it as a one-way sluice for their own "content." Yeah, the Net'll support that, but that's not what users want it for.
Broadband ISPs like Comcast, according to their terms of service, forbid subscribers from running "servers". I understand that subscribers who run "servers" could be taking advantage of the Internet service -- for example, to run a web server for their company -- which could mean that they grab a disproportionate share of shared resources. However, what's so terrible about a subscriber running a web server so that their relatives and friends can view the pictures they took at a birthday party? Or so that the subscriber can check his mail while away from his home?
Do the broadband service providers get it?
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