Am 30.03.2013 16:11, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: > On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:06:16 +0100 > Norman Rieß <nor...@smash-net.org> wrote: > >> As we all know everything works better and cheaper when things are >> privatized > > Actually No it's not so simple at all. > > You get incompetence in private and public and you may be more likely > to get away with it for longer in a public service than in a market with > competition but there are many examples where things simply get worse. > > In the UK, water companies were privatisied and fat cats made lots of > money letting the pipes deteriorate for future generations. > > British Telecom, well that's a mixed bag but it is certainly a > tiny shadow of it's original self. > > We know ideals and theory hardly ever work but theoretically public > should be much better when well managed. > > I wonder if ISPS wouldn't be handling things like TalkTalks > Homesafe in such a stupid manner (across the board is where it is > stupid, even for non users of the service) where they redirect all the > http traffic through an undoubtedly insecure layer 7 handling huawei > device with less commercial pressures or analysing bandwidth at layer > 7 when they should be doing so more safely and completely at layers 3 > and 4 leading me to believe they are not just thinking about bandwidth > usage. Why does it matter if you download 1000Gb via torrents or http. > ACKs can be managed in any case. > > I'm glad open source is beginning to make strides into public services > as it should help put an end to expensive interoperability issues (if > we stay away from non posix things like systemd, though even then > shouldn't be too bad ;-)). >
I think, you did not spot the sarcasm in what i said :-).
