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Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps

  • From: Edward Lewis
  • Date: Fri Oct 25 13:29:32 2002 
At 13:14 -0400 10/25/02, Sean Donelan wrote:

Are there some down-sides? Sure.  But who really needs the end-to-end
principle or uncontrolled innovation.
The context of the above is, of course, sarcastic. But it reminded me of a quote that once appeared on mailing list that is germane to this. The quote was uttered in 1824 or so, by the inventor of the telegraph. The quote lamented that the funding needed to deploy an innovative concept was held by the folks that were the most threatened by innovation - i.e., they made money with out the latest new fangled thing so whatever the new fangled thing did, it was sure to be a threat to their current income stream.

Does anyone know this quote?
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