----- Forwarded message from Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> ----- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:07:50 -0700 From: Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> To: linux-elitists@zgp.org Subject: [linux-elitists] Evil in certain broadband marketsa isn't really evil Organization: If you lived here, you'd be $HOME already. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) (As Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler used to say, 'That statement is no longer operative at this time.'] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/google-neutrality/ Now That It's in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality By Ryan Singel 07.30.13 1:55 PM In a dramatic about-face on a key internet issue yesterday, Google told the FCC that the network neutrality rules Google once championed don't give citizens the right to run servers on their home broadband connections, and that the Google Fiber network is perfectly within its rights to prohibit customers from attaching the legal devices of their choice to its network. At issue is Google Fiber's Terms of Service, which contains a broad prohibition against customers attaching "servers" to its ultrafast 1 Gbps network in Kansas City. Google wants to ban the use of servers because it plans to offer a business class offering in the future. [...] _______________________________________________ Do not Cc: anyone else on mail sent to this list. The list server is set for maximum one recipient. linux-elitists mailing list linux-elitists@zgp.org http://zgp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5