Comments on: Wu, Skype, Walled Gardens and “Openness” http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Fri, 25 May 2012 18:27:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/comment-page-1/#comment-37308 Noel Le Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:25:23 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/#comment-37308 <p>It sounds like Carlo would also argue that we should let the market settle DRM issues rather than repeal the DMCA.</p> <p>I generally find TechDirt trying too hard to be catchy. Their goal in critiquing any business model or policy is to show that its not 100% rational or logical. Now, thats both the role and value of analysts, but only after you realize that business and policy decisions can be necessary or valuable without being 100%, and thereby cut the analysts out of the final decision making. Otherwise society would be hamstrung and make no decisions at all.</p> It sounds like Carlo would also argue that we should let the market settle DRM issues rather than repeal the DMCA.

I generally find TechDirt trying too hard to be catchy. Their goal in critiquing any business model or policy is to show that its not 100% rational or logical. Now, thats both the role and value of analysts, but only after you realize that business and policy decisions can be necessary or valuable without being 100%, and thereby cut the analysts out of the final decision making. Otherwise society would be hamstrung and make no decisions at all.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/comment-page-1/#comment-44211 Noel Le Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:25:23 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/#comment-44211 <p>It sounds like Carlo would also argue that we should let the market settle DRM issues rather than repeal the DMCA.<br><br>I generally find TechDirt trying too hard to be catchy. Their goal in critiquing any business model or policy is to show that its not 100% rational or logical. Now, thats both the role and value of analysts, but only after you realize that business and policy decisions can be necessary or valuable without being 100%, and thereby cut the analysts out of the final decision making. Otherwise society would be hamstrung and make no decisions at all.</p> It sounds like Carlo would also argue that we should let the market settle DRM issues rather than repeal the DMCA.

I generally find TechDirt trying too hard to be catchy. Their goal in critiquing any business model or policy is to show that its not 100% rational or logical. Now, thats both the role and value of analysts, but only after you realize that business and policy decisions can be necessary or valuable without being 100%, and thereby cut the analysts out of the final decision making. Otherwise society would be hamstrung and make no decisions at all.

]]> By: HandsOff http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/comment-page-1/#comment-37307 HandsOff Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:03:41 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/#comment-37307 <p>Just as in the larger net neutrality debate, Wu et al. are seeking government intervention not because the market is broken and in need of regulation but because the market is not producing the exact result they want. And as I've noted before, I do some work with the Hands Off the Internet coalition, but I've always felt that unnecessarily preemptive regulation is simply bad policy.</p> Just as in the larger net neutrality debate, Wu et al. are seeking government intervention not because the market is broken and in need of regulation but because the market is not producing the exact result they want. And as I’ve noted before, I do some work with the Hands Off the Internet coalition, but I’ve always felt that unnecessarily preemptive regulation is simply bad policy.

]]> By: HandsOff http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/comment-page-1/#comment-44210 HandsOff Mon, 26 Feb 2007 12:03:41 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/02/24/wu-skype-walled-gardens-and-openness/#comment-44210 <p>Just as in the larger net neutrality debate, Wu et al. are seeking government intervention not because the market is broken and in need of regulation but because the market is not producing the exact result they want. And as I've noted before, I do some work with the Hands Off the Internet coalition, but I've always felt that unnecessarily preemptive regulation is simply bad policy.</p> Just as in the larger net neutrality debate, Wu et al. are seeking government intervention not because the market is broken and in need of regulation but because the market is not producing the exact result they want. And as I’ve noted before, I do some work with the Hands Off the Internet coalition, but I’ve always felt that unnecessarily preemptive regulation is simply bad policy.

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