From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44C9049D.2060603@village.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:23:25 -0400 From: Wes Kussmaul User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Investigating the Plan 9 Operating System - OSNews.com References: <06d73c05da5799c7f0057e2bdb88a99f@mail.gmx.net> <44C8D610.4090009@village.com> <44C8DE68.6000707@lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <44C8DE68.6000707@lanl.gov> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 8fb1ac6a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Ronald G Minnich wrote: >>> In theory, you do not need authorities because everyone behaves.=20 >>> It's called civilisation, I think this world should try that out. > we did. it failed. > > see, the arpanet, ca. 1976, where we all trusted each other. Once the=20 > masses came in, it was all over. 1. CIX and others provided alternate backbones to NSF, enabling=20 commercial traffic 2. Delphi (which I founded) saw the resulting opportunity and started=20 bringing in the masses 3. Delphi was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, who thought the Net was a=20 broadcast medium and thus blew it big time 4. AOL seized on the resulting vacuum and brought in the masses of masses= . So money transformed the Net from an ivy league faculty club into Real=20 Life. Could you envision any other outcome? Money is one of those things that removes civilization from=20 civilization. And money always finds a way in. And yes, I did my part. --=20 Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world=92s biggest troubles started when th= e serpent said, =93Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people co= llectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it=92s the = same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.=94 I don=92t get the= serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a = bit obscure.=20 P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)