Re: Tucows survey

From: Phillip Beazley (pb-mls@onvix.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 00:20:29 EDT


At 10:35 PM 6/4/2003, Paul Chvostek wrote:

>After all that, the only real objections I can come up with are that
>this service competes directly with services that I (and a number of us)
>already provide, and I'm frustrated that my use of the Tucows Registrar
>has contributed to the development of products whose widespread use will
>increase competition in an area that brings me revenue.

Wow, couldn't have said it better myself. Had I known we were financing
the competition instead of what we signed on for, well, I wouldn't
have. At least you know/knew up-front that other registrars were going to
compete with you.

>And it's a spurious objection, because I have no right to object to
>Tucows' efforts to generate profit for its shareholders, when I'm not
>even a shareholder.

Regardless of how my dollars got there, the fact is they did. That gives
me the right.

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Phillip Beazley
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