Which has people doing the equivalent of trying to legislate pi=3 type regulatory regimes. Or repeal law of gravity.
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(or rely on the goodwill of the players, which money has unfortunately entirely corroded.)
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The fact that they are *able* to adopt a monopoly position and blackmail is itself a cons. of tech issues.
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Ignoring something as technically meaningful as hard/soft/non real-time simply because political problems arise = bad tech.
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The Internet has dealt quite well without hard-scheduled QoS for 40 years, despite the continued squawking of telco engineers.
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And again, I am totally with principle of combating monopoly. Just not with arbitrary tech line in the sand.
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But if Cablevision refuses to accept real competition, then they're gonna get tied up so they don't kill the thing we care about.
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My heuristic: which path opens up max tech optionality towards constant tech improvement (not specific utopian vision).
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QoS/latency over all other innovations at the explicit cost of decentralized systems.
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