Robert Haeckl wrote:
>
> me. You may not be able to access some of your favorite sites unless
> you buy into the .NET plan. Microsoft knows they can't control the wire
> but maybe through proprietary servers they can control the endpoints of
> the internet. Maybe it's a bit paranoid but in view of Microsoft's
> business practices a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted.
While I agree with everything you said in your message, this bit here is
a statement that I see repeated over and over when people talk about
Microsoft "owning" the Internet.
The way I see it, unless they purchase the physical lines, or the actual
transport layer that drives the Internet (concievable, but highly
unlikely, I think) the Internet at large will still remain free as a
whole. The difference being there will effectively be two "Internets"
running in parallel: the one that all the Microsoft people can see and
use, and the one the rest of us can see and use which will still be
powered by things like Sendmail, Apache, BIND, Mozilla and so on.
I'm not so concerned about The Internet being owned by Microsoft any
time soon. I lived without CNN.com for many years, and I'm sure I can
survive without it in the future if I have to.
And if the day comes where Microsoft also owns Cisco, AT&T, Sprint, C&W,
UUNET, Verizon and everyone in between your desktop and the server
you're trying to contact, and only allows Microsoft protocols to be
transmitted, well, I was on FidoNET for a few years quite some time
back, and I can always do that again, and lets not forget that every
Linux distro also includes PPP and UUCP... (Maybe I should set up a
Citadel again... :)
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