[ale] [rant] I dislike "we only support winblows/OS X"AT&T internet

[Jeff Hubbs]

But Jeff's comment is entirely germane.  We as consumers are dealing 
with diminished service and value.  I've been victimized by the 
ILEC-vs.-CLEC thing (DSL service disappeared entirely and no path for 
nor hope of redress) before and Bellsouth was responsible.  The FCC is 
one agency that is supposed to be a guardrail for this sort of behavior 
yet that agency, like so many others, have been rigged by this 
Administration and its President. 

One can only stand around and decry the technological abuses for so 
long; they are the way they are because some people decided it would be 
so and other people allowed it.  It isn't political to call that out; 
it's rational.



Dan Lambert wrote:
> Sorry to have to say so, Jeff, but I am rather tired of you injecting
> politics into every discussion you can. It seems you never miss a chance
> to inject whatever negative you can about your chosen demon.
>
> If I wanted to be a member of a political forum, I would have joined
> one.
>
> I happen to have strong political opinions of my own, but I do
> everything I can to make my posts on this list about Linux and it's
> associated trials and tribulations.
>
> If I wanted to, I could load this list with political diatribes about
> various and sundry politicos and their cronies. I don't. Please do
> likewise.
>
> Dan
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:07 -0500, Jeff Lightner wrote:
>   
>> Well it was a specious argument anyway because it assumes that the phone
>> company plays nice the way it is supposed to by law.
>>
>> By law the people that own the wire (ILEC = Incumbent Local Exchange
>> Carrier) were supposed to open it up to resellers (CLEC = Competitive
>> Local Exchange Carrier) in exchange for being allowed to sell long
>> distance.  What the ILECs did instead is pretend they were "open" but
>> then do everything they could to sabotage the CLECs (e.g. not doing the
>> central office connections in a timely fashion) so that CLECs couldn't
>> really make a go of anything other than business connections.
>>
>> Unfortunately the FCC which was supposed to insure this didn't happen
>> got taken over by Dubya appointees and suddenly it didn't matter that
>> the ILECs weren't complying.
>>
>> You're supposed to have a choice but you don't really for the most part.
>> Witness the poster who has DSL from AT&T but for some reason can't get
>> it from any of the resellers because of the way it is provisioned.
>>
>>