18 Oct 2003
Sell the 'Net

Well, well, well - Verisign thinks the Internet should just be sold off piecemeal! I'm shocked!

If our government allows this publicly developed resource to be auctioned off a la the radio spectrum in the 1920's it will be a great tragedy. I love the sarcastic quote from the Slashdot poster:

Because, after all, taking the root servers away from bright, educated comp-sci longbeards who have nothing better to do than to make them run well, and putting them in the hands of MBA bean-counters who don't know what TCP/IP is, is a sure-fire way to improve reliability.

VeriSign CEO on Commercializing the Internet [Slashdot]

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