----- Original Message ----- > From: "Miles Fidelman" <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net>
> Either way, if one is a customer of both, one will end up paying for > the infrastructure - it's more about gorillas fighting, which bill it > shows up on, who ends up pocketing more of the profits, and how many > negative side-effects result. <hobbyhorse> No. Nope. DAMNIT, NO. Why is it that whenever we are having these conversations -- be they about Netflix and Verizon, or restaurants and waiters -- that we always tacitly *approve* of the idea that the zero sum game of money includes only the vendors and the customers? Why the *hell* do we not assume that perhaps, just maybe, *the company in the middle* ought to take some of that extra cost out of their profits? Have they succeeded in convincing us -- the paying customers -- that corporate profit margins are sacred? That they should *never* have to pay some of that cost themselves? Why? </hobbyhorse> Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
