Re: Proposal to charge for commercial use of ISO country codes?

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Nathaniel writes:

> Weird things often seem to come in threes.  The third IP-related
> insanely greedy weirdness for last week involved the Dewey Decimal
> system and its current corporate, er, guardians:
>
> > http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-dewey-decimal-
> > defenders,0,2420724.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

Maybe it's time to replace the Dewey Decimal system, the ISO, and Verisign.
When organizations charged with the public trust begin to see it as only a
cash cow to be milked shamelessly and indiscriminately, it's time to find
other caretakers for that trust.



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