From: Robert Currey (R.P.Currey_at_leeds.ac.uk)
Date: 28/05/03 14:41
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gordon.rimer_at_tiscali.co.uk
> Just gotta respond to this.
> My understanding of the free market mechanism is that the reason
> everyone hates it is because not only did it evolve on the right of
> society but it got extreme about its rightwingedness! Its by far
> the most successful deliverer of goodies so far invented and my
> mission is to bring it back into the centre as a delivery
mechanism.
I was pointing out that making money out of wireless AP has been much
harder than anyone with fistfuls of venture cash anticipated; most
struggled and failed. Whereas shoestring community based groups have
been very successful.
Think of it like roads, power, telecoms: these are/were nationalised;
until everyone has them and takes them for granted, the benefits that
are built upon these infrastructures are not to be found. If you are
the only person in the world with a fax machine, it is not going to
be very useful.
Robert
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Robert Currey
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School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Leeds
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