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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Skype is not the issue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Innovation and consumer retention is the issue.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Absolutely no way in hell should the “govners” of the Internet begin to build robust socialistic preservation societies for private enterprise success stories.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No more sure way to kill them than that.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If there is a need and we prevent <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">governed</I> interference, the fittest and most dynamic model will excel.</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Roland: Great point ---<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>sometimes larger corporate structures create a sideproduct that does not fit in with the overall funding motif of that structure – but the idea and product is so good it just plain flourishes (Once my mother described me as the youngest of six kids as being such a by product – fair nuf)<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Perhaps time for Skype to grow up and move out on its own. </FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Joe:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Your recent comment that declares that the only governors of the Internet are end consumers, is proven here.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No matter how much ebay ignored Skype it grew (always remembering the ultimate flattery is imitation)</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>McTim: No! was the perfect response.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>If governance is to help the people and indeed that is the noblest goal, our efforts toward subsidies, grants and access enhancement should be focused on doing for the disenfranchised or barred users.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It should be a pointed synergy to create access and reliability for those without. It should be to facilitate the useage of existing paradigms to enhance quality of life --<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Not the enhancement or protection of the paradigms.</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>My choices both corporate and personal have been not focused so much on product but on the politics of use: In Vietnam we use the most expensive system<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>-<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>that facilitates us spending money on developing technologies and the people. If my wife sees our home bills I use the cheapest to promote tranquility.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In my mobile office we use a Packet 8 system right out of 1 Wilshire, and caged next to Yahoo.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I don’t like to be seen, but when my loved ones travel I insist on a Skype video concept so I can judge health and they can see home.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"
/><st1:country-region><st1:place>Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region> it is all Vonage – seems to be politically correct and lowtech. (note the shameless plug for dotLOWTECH, a Dierker owned, Babtista designed TLD)</FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The only real shock about Skype is the shock some folks experience at watching how services grow and evolve.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 8/1/09, Jeremy Malcolm <I><jeremy@ciroap.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid"><BR>From: Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy@ciroapp.org><BR>Subject: Re: [governance] FW: [IP] Shock threat to shut Skype<BR>To: governance@lists.cpsr.org<BR>Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 3:20 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On 31/07/2009, at 11:08 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:<BR><BR>> Anyone agree with me that Skype, like medical care, is too essential a service to be left to the market...<BR><BR><BR>Actually the lesson for discussion at the IGF is a very simple one; "stick to open standards". This is why I have always preferred to use SIP for Internet telephony, being an open standard that no single vendor can lock up. If this Skype debacle achieves anything, it will be to encourage more people to switch to SIP providers.<BR><BR>--JEREMY MALCOLM<BR>Project Coordinator<BR>CONSUMERS INTERNATIONAL-KL OFFICE<BR>for Asia Pacific and the Middle East <BR><BR>Lot 5-1 Wisma WIM<BR>7 Jalan Abang Haji Openg<BR>TTDI, 60000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia<BR>Tel: +60 3 7726 1599<BR>Mob: +60 12 282 5895<BR>Fax: +60 3 7726 8599<BR>www.consumersinternational.org<BR><BR>Consumers International (CI) is the only independent global campaigning voice
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