“[In the Microsoft anti-trust case] we pro-regulators were making an assumption that history has shown to be completely false: That something as complex as an OS has to be built by a commercial entity. Only crazies … worked on something called Linux … I think about this mistake whenever I think about the current Microsoft-like network-neutrality debate – whether network owners can pick the stuff that flows across ‘their’ network. In this debate, too, I am a reluctant regulator.”

Definitely a recommended read - Wired article here.

Posted Saturday, January 13th, 2007 @ 8:57 am
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