> > until recently the only way I could get even one > > static IP address for my home was through a special deal with a > > friend of mine who had a small ISP, and the best bandwidth I could > > get was 128kbps. none of the other local providers would sell me > > one. > > Doesn't the fact that there's not enough demand for this product > to make it available suggest anything to you?
does the fact that there was enough demand for the product that it eventually became available suggest anything to you? > > so if you can't come up with a rational explanation for something, > > just pretend that the market is wise and cite it as an unimpeachable > > authority. > > I do have a rational explanation: the customers don't actually care > at all about your fundamentalist commitment to end-to-end > connectivity. true, customers don't care about e2e. they do, however, care about running apps that won't work when e2e is broken. > So, on the one hand, we have the actual behavior of millions of > people. no, we have your biased interpretation of that behavior, as observed from a great distance, through a dirty lens. Keith
