[MLB-WIRELESS] The future

Drew drew at wirelessanarchy.com
Thu Jan 24 12:24:11 EST 2002


If someone charged for access to an uplink to the internet from their 
node they wouldn't suddenly control the whole network.

Nevermind the fact they'd need a carrier's license and probably would 
never do this, of course.

-D

Mark Saward wrote:

>Thinking ahead...
>
>If in the future this takes off and becomes very popular around
>Melbourne, or perhaps even further than that...
>
>Would it be possible for one/a few people, either on this list now or to
>join up in the future to legally/through hardware gain control of
>important points of the WAN and act like an ISP or something new, taking
>away the free nature of the WAN?
>
>Is there any way that the WAN can be protected, like the GNU GPL
>license, to ensure that it is always free to those with the hardware?
>
>Mark Saward
>



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