M$ trying to license the Internet

[Net Llama!]

On 11/07/2004 01:53 PM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> On 11/07/2004 12:01 PM, David Bandel wrote:
>>
>>> This is just too typical M$:
>>>
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1714680,00.asp
>>>
>>> Hell, if anyone was _stupid_ enough to sign this.  Just think, only M$
>>> could modify Internet protocols.  The Internet would die overnight.
>>>
>>> This from the last company on earth to discover there was an Internet.
>>>  And I remember well an Internet with no M$.  Those were the days. 
>>> Too bad we can't go back.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alas, it was fun back in 1994 when there was no spam, no banner ads, 
>> and virtually no .coms.
>>
> 
> Not much in the way of web.  If you could get a shell account, it cost a 
> fortune.  ftp or gopher for files.  14,400 dial-up connections.  Yeah, 
> those were the days.

There was alot of web back in 1994.  Of course i was in college, so i 
was already paying for the shell account and bandwidth, indirectly.


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