Re: [ga] Follow-up on Marilyn, Lary and Bill

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

Eric Dierker wrote:
> 
> Dear Mr. Morfin,
> 
> It is long wandering posts like this one that are so helpful. ...

Oddly enough, that is sometimes true. However, it is also the case that some of
the long rambles are among the most useless, incomprehensible and irrelevant
posts here.

> The digital divide, is absolutely nothing new, it is those with power through
> knowledge wielding it against those without.

This sounds like you're blaming the technical folk -- DNS administrators and the
IETF protocol designers, the people with the knowledge here -- for the various
brokenesses of ICANN. That is not justified. 

You're right; there's a divide and power is being wielded in ways that are
detrimental to the net and to many users.

But blame various politicians, WIPO, the lawyers, the greed associated with
the "dot com goldrush" (mad expansion, trampling on the natives, claim jumpers,
...), various people and companies whose only goal in life seems to be to cash
in, ...

It's not the techies, or at the very least not primarily them.
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