OT Rant Re: ADSL again

[Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>]

kei furuuchi (kfur@example.com) wrote:

> Again I am not happy with how business works, if it is in the US, 
> it is clearly violation of antitrust law. 
> But I am on ntt bandwagon.

This doesn't appear to make sense.  Basically you're saying,
"This stinks.  It would be illegal in the U.S.  But it's not
illegal here, so I support it."  Cough.

Yes, a large part of Tokyo Metallic's problems stem from the
fact that NTT dragged its feet until it was able to deploy
a DSL network of its own.   Which makes it pretty hard to
think anything but ill of NTT.  

Don't you have the least bit of
a problem with that sort of Microsoft-esque way of doing
business?  Apparently not, or maybe you do - a tiny bit -
but saving 1300 yen a month is more important.  I don't know
about you, but I don't like doing business with companies 
whom I believe are unethical and sticking up both consumers
and competitors, and I take my business elsewhere.

I don't care if NTT is cheaper, it's NTT.  Imagine if 
Microsoft started selling Windows 2000 for less than 
a boxed set of <insert your favorite Linux or BSD distro
here> and that furthermore that Linux or BSD distro was
no longer available by free download in binary form
(which they don't have to do under the GPL; they have to
make the source available (at least) to anyone who has a binary;
they don't have to make binaries available to anyone at all. 
That's a freebie we get, but they don't have to do it).  Now,
all of a sudden Windows 2000 is actually cheaper than Microsoft,
in this scenario.

Would you switch to Windows just because it became cheaper?
Oh, wait.   I suppose you would have to for the sake of consistency.

Jonathan