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Re: Silicon Snobbery
Google's proposal is (one of a dozen -- it should be pointed out) in response to a call from the City of San Francisco's to set up a free or low-cost wireless network to blanket the city.
The column cited for this topic is one man's opinion lamenting that the city government of Ketchikan doesn't have the foresight to do the same and put out their own call. Have they?
It would be one thing if Ketchikan does put forth a call and doesn't receive any bids, but so far, they haven't, so it's a more than a bit of a stretch to accuse Google of any sort of snobbery, or blame them for an inequality that may not exist.
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ricep5
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| I was commenting on a general persistent posture that the tone of the article reinforces. That Central California (anything in or around SF) seems to be the only place any new techno scheme will work.
Doesn't matter if its Ketchikan or Fargo or Peoria.
Microsoft has lost more money in areas than some companies will never make in their history. Some see that as a risk taking exercise, I won't dispute that, some of the losses go way outside their core corporate directives. That I take issue with.
Expedia is the only MS based spinoff I can think of that came "out of the box" and rolled a profit. MSNBC probably wiped out twice over whatever they made off of that.
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