[sllug-members]: How to get UTOPIA, was: (Host my own...)

[Gary Thornock]

--- Bart Whiteley <bwhiteley at novell.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 20:35 -0600, Doran Barton wrote:
>> Because of my libertarian-leaning beliefs, I feel projects
>> like iProvo and other government-as-an-ISP projects are a
>> BadThing(tm).
>
> iProvo isn't an ISP.  They provide the fiber only, just like
> UTOPIA.  Multiple ISPs are available on iProvo, none of them
> government owned.

True, although it's worth noting that so far, only two ISPs have
been allowed in, and neither of them is anything to write home
about.  They're no worse than Comcast, but that's not saying
much.