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Malcolm Baker,
Baker Publishing,
42 Spencer Avenue,
Maketu 3189.
Minister of Internet
Hon.Amy Adams MP,
Minister for Communications and Information Technology,
Parliament Buiildings,
Wellington.
27th March 2014
Dear Minister,
Some time ago I wrote to the previous Minister Stephen Joyce. He wrote back dismissing what I had to say.
READ MY ONLINE JavaScript PROGRAMMING TUTORIAL
a link to my JavaScript programming tutorial, oor you can go to the page directly www.javascriptkit.com and go to the tutorial and FAQ link on the left hand side.
Basically I'm saying I wrote a JavaScript tutorial so I know what I'm talking about.
My opinion is that the internet is overpriced. I pay $75 per month from Telecom, for 40Gb of data, and a landline. I don't need 40Gb, only 2-3 Gb. The cost should be $30 ($29.95) per month. The Commerce Commission has said Chorus should charge about $10 per month. I agree, although they could make profits at a lot less. Also the speed. Copper lines can easily handle all the speed I need. I do not need "superfast". If I use a web camera for Skype- which I don't need to, and it goes too fast, I simply go through more data, which I don't need.
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Some of this may be none of your concern, however let me point out a few historical facts.
In 1977 I went to the United States, and ended up at Evergreen State College in Washington State where I used a timeshare computer runniing Modified Basic, on terminals we could take home and plug into a telephone modem. I did my basic programming there and helped to "modify" the primary software. Some of the terminals were outdated even then, only old "teletype" machines.
I also used a brand new machine of which there were only two in the world. They were "scanners" or OCR, (Optical Character Recognition) machines, and prototype machines owed by Boeing, which was located a few miles away in Seattle. It scanned typed pages into computer read code.
In 1981 I helped my friend Dale Crouse build his computers on my dining room table. These were telephone exchange type of machines which generated their own billing.
In 1991 at the Bay of Plenty Polytech we used the newly released DOS 5 operating system, which wasn't officially released until 1991 (actually June or late 1990),( but we had machines running this software from the beginning of the year). Look at Wikipedia - DOS Operating Systems timeline
for confirmation. I know a lot about this but you don't need to know for now, who did what first and where.
My modem I bought from Dale in the USA (in 1990) came with BitCom software which was paid for (supplied) by the modem (hardware) manufacturer. It has a number of files including .arc (archive) files which contained the documentation for the system. Phil Katz, who later wrote .zip files contested the ownership of .arc utilities in court but lost. Some of the software was public domain, but the point was who wrote the manual and archived it?
Later modems became internal and became browser software. There was a big legal battle between Microsoft and Sun over whose software JavaScript is/was. Microsoft lost but still uses (distributes) Internet Explorer which they say uses their language JScript, not JavaScript. (This is not correct, the court order prohibits them distributing their browser, which violates JavaScript copyright.) Sun owns JavaScript. but has been taken over by Oracle.
Here is the important point.