[LINK] Business fetishism (was Re: LINK] Four Corners NBN)

[Richard Chirgwin]

Recheck the math, Tom. "Several thousand billion"? I don't think even 
the NBN plus healthcare plus education runs into the *trillions*.

RC

On 25/04/11 7:32 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> Isn't that the exact opposite of the OSI vs TCP/IP argument way back
>> when Link was first starting. ...
> Some planning would seem prudent when spending several thousand billion
> dollars (being the cost of the installation of the NBN, plus education
> and health systems over those years).
>
>> If I remember correctly you supported the TCP/IP Nike approach of "just
>> do it" back then. What's changed your mind? ...
> Over the last 15 years my views may have changed, in the light of
> experience.
>
> ps: I can't find anywhere I actually said "Just do it". Perhaps you are
> thinking of Karl Auer:
> <http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2005-July/062872.html>?
>
>