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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (34404)	7/12/2010 9:29:27 PM
From: axial	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

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