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Re: iglu on slashdot
- To: Ariel Biener <ariel(at-nospam)fireball.tau.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: iglu on slashdot
- From: Oleg Goldshmidt <ogoldshmidt(at-nospam)computer.org>
- Date: 14 May 2001 20:09:40 +0300
- Cc: haim(at-nospam)hageltech.com, linux-il(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
- In-Reply-To: Ariel Biener's message of "Mon, 14 May 2001 19:45:14 +0300 (IDT)"
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Ariel Biener <ariel@fireball.tau.ac.il> writes:
> If, in order to supply you with your needs, it needs to add 5Mbit of
> capacity to it's planned capacity, it costs a FORTUNE.
I don't buy this argument. They can limit the traffic by contract, and
offer to pay more for extras, just as Haim said.
> Thus, they don't mind enlarging capacity, and charging you for extra
> traffic (depends what SLA you have with them), since it doesn't hurt them
> economically.
How can it hurt the provider economically if the bill the customer?
> Try thinking about how we regard water, and how does Norway regard
> water.
Bad example - water in Israel is a scarce unrecoverable resource - not
merely expensive.
--
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org
"I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs."
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