Your points are well-taken. Agreed, for instance, on all aspects of "open"
"That said, even with all best intentions, a government, any government, will always make mistakes, and unfortunately this happens more times than we'd care to admit. Sometimes they make gross mistakes; in this case, a goodly number of mistakes have been made."
In some respects I see comparisons to Verizon's FIOS, or differently, something far better than AT&T's U-verse. I certainly don't see justification for the view that government screwups are any better or worse than those of their commercial counterparts; the present global economic crisis is proof of that. The magnitude of compounding errors and sequence of falling dominoes exceeds anything seen in our lifetime.
If it came to a choice between what Canada can expect and what Australia will get, I'd pick Australia, warts, screwups and all. Because despite the mistakes they'll get throughput - and we won't.
If mistakes are the cost of greater good, then so be it. It was ever thus.
Jim |
