[jxf]

This doesn't seem like a very compelling argument to me. They serve different purposes.

Do Habitat for Humanity stores put Home Depot out of business?

Do food banks put grocery stores out of business?

Does offering free water as a drink put bars out of business?

Same product category, very different markets.

[Zeing0Ch]

I think your comparisons are terrible, they are either not the same product at all or exactly the same argument applies. Of course food banks should (and are in many places) be means tested, so as not to compete with grocery stores. You can't compare water with booze, there may be an argument of tab water competing unfairly with bottled water though.

In this case, 25 MBit/s is 25 Mbit/s there is no difference in service between a community ISP and a commercial/public company ISP except the price.

[jxf]

> 25 MBit/s is 25 Mbit/s there is no difference in service between a community ISP and a commercial/public company ISP except the price

No difference except the price, really? So, you don't think any of the following are differences?

* What the provider is permitted to do with your data

* Whether there is a soft cap on usage before throttling begins

* How aggressively they do traffic shaping

* What you're allowed or not allowed to do as per the terms of service (e.g. run a server)

and so on.

It seems like you're hand-waving away a ton of stuff and dismissing it as unimportant.