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Same should go for internet. You can own the infrastructure or you can provide the service, but not both.
by Osiris 3y ago
Same should go for internet.
You can own the infrastructure or you can provide the service, but not both.
- spacebanana7 3y agoThe distinction between platform and product is much hazier in software compared to physical industries. For example, it’s taken for granted that most personal computing platforms have built in PDF viewers, but this wasn’t always the case and used to be a distinct product category (and still is to some extent). Similar for media players, some networking software, and spreadsheet apps. Should Cloudflare be allowed to offer reverse CDN services for uploading content? Or would that unfairly compete with companies like Mux? (Entertaining the notion that Mux is built on CF)
- edgyquant 3y agoThis doesn’t appear to be a response to or at all related to ISPs either owning the infrastructure or selling the service. What exactly is your point about ISPs here?
- spacebanana7 3y agoThe point is that boundary between service and infrastructure is gradual in the digital world but discrete in physical world. A digital infrastructure provider must sell a level of servicing for their products to be useable.
- paulddraper 3y agoWhat do you mean by service? ISPs?
- lacksconfidence 3y agoI don't know if this is what GP is getting at, but it reminds me of DSL unbundling. One company owns the wires, another company is the ISP.