rs-px, I agree with you philosophically. I just see so much inertia against ubiquitous wifi, even something like FON. I would love to see an organic grassroots effort at creating that democratic wifi infrastructure, but I fear the Maintainers of the Almighty Status Quo will succeed in damaging it if not killing it outright somehow (just watch the industry-whoring FCC find some sort of fault with FON).

Just look how telcos twisted the debate over net neutrality: their spin doctors managed to co-opt the debate entirely and flip the positions to where it appeared net neutrality advocates were the ones wanting a gated internet! The public is too technically ignorant to know any better and too sheepish to learn enough to fight this sort of crap. All they want is a connection, and if the telcos provide it at a price just short of fatal, regardless of how painful, they'll take it.

I want extradomestic wifi to live long and prosper, but it looks to me like FON or no FON, it's losing momentum...