yock
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| reply to Matt
Re: Ulterior Motives?
said by Matt  :Perhaps their motive is to actually make Connected Nation relevant? If you sit on a board and indirectly donate $7 million to an organization ... you tend to have a bit of say-so. Of course, I don't hold out much hope that Microsoft wouldn't be completely satisfied with a duopoly in the broadband market. It's a lot easier for Microsoft to influence and, dare I say, control the few major players in the current oligarchy than to try and cooperate with a fabric of hundreds of smaller ISP's woven throughout the less-connected United States. Since it seems a foregone conclusion that those oligarchs will never seriously service areas that aren't already connected, protecting that reality saves Microsoft from having to worry about consumers having independent alternatives to Bell, Time Warner, and Comcast. |
