My comment:
You’ve converted me Om. If you search my old comments you may find that I’ve been on the other side of the metered bandwidth fence saying “people should pay for what they eat.”
But I really appreciate your argument on the “protecting existing TV business” and think it goes even deeper than that: if they can’t regulate the internet due to net neutrality, then they’ll try to move content/services off the internet and into a proprietary network, e.g., Comcast On-Demand.
For example:
Every cable pipe going into people’s homes is already splitting time between the internet and a proprietary video network. Now imagine that proprietary network getting smarter…adding communication and social application overlays, and meanwhile the cost of using that pipe for internet access increases. Then they’ll effectively compete with internet content and services but /off-network/ and completely unregulated.
Light-weight OS's are the way to go for cloud/thin-frame computing. PCs need to boot up and down almost as quickly as phones do...full-blown Windows today is overkill for basic surfing
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