Open != Innovation

My Response to C|NET Article "When taxes aren't the problem."

What evidence do you have of "Open Network" and "Unlocking" had or will lead to innovation. Does Google open their search engine algorithm for everybody else to use? Does C|NET open up their business practices so others can copy it? Does C|NET open up its website so that other publishers can publish their article on C|NET website? Idea that "Open" is a key to innovation has almost no basis what so ever. Open is a key word people like to throw here and there for an effect without any substantive meanings. Asian mobiles have closed networks and locked cells phones, too. So, if you cite Asian phone companies as innovative then locking cell phones can't be the problem.

Taxation is not just a cost to the consumer or the industry as a dollar figure. It is a device for unprofessional and no-expert government regulators and politicians to regulate industries which they have no business of regulating or have say to how, which, where, when, and what industries can do. What gives these politicians license to tell these industries how to operate any of their businesses? Would you hire a plumber to fix your car? Would C|NET hire plumber to work on the websites?

What CTIA and trade group like this are saying is that limit the regulation, pure and simple. Regulation limits the innovation and growth.

If the regulation is so good then government should tax and regulate the all the internet commerce. Thus, real innovations that you dream up or hope up can happen.