> I don't think my mistrust is irrational. After all, Tucows introduced > e-mail service over exactly the same kind of objections, > after originally > saying that they had no intention of offering services that > compete with > their original target market (the small-to-medium technically > knowledgeable ISP who needs things like domain registration, secure > certificates, payment gateway services, etc.).
There's just so far one can grow a business solely on that maket. Do you think they have some obligation to honor a blood oath in perpetuity here, to stop growing or disband so as not to interfere with you? Newsflash: *ALL* companies develop channel conflict if they grow to a decent size. > The introduction of turnkey e-mail, and the future introduction of > Blogware, are a fairly clear move towards providing services that are > traditionally offered at a retail level, being sold by Tucows (as I > mentioned) by what amounts to little more an affiliate program. No, it amounts to a service provider program. The service is customer service, though, not bit-moving. > (If Tucows would say that they will never offer Web hosting > services to > resellers, I'll gladly shut up about it forever and apologize for > impugning their motives.) That's the point: they should NEVER say "never" about anything.
