[AusNOG] Aus Industry Congratulations Email

[Robert Hudson]

Just over $128m for 180 recipients, or an average or over $700k per
recipient.  A number of the lower-end figures wouldn't purchase a decent
SME NAS with disks in it...

On 5 September 2016 at 23:33, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog@
eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> The list: https://www.ag.gov.au/NationalSecurity/DataRetention/D
> ocuments/DRIGP-recipients.pdf
>
> I am absolutely stunned by this list and how much people asked for - and
> got.
>
> Sure, there are people who needed the money to comply, but I think a lot
> of people are taking advantage of the system and should be ashamed of
> themselves for how much they asked for.
>
> Yes, the government did a shit job, but this is community money - needed
> for us to comply with a stupid law. Not a slush fund for people to build up
> their business.
>
> Universities - I don't understand. System Integrators - bullshit. VoIP
> providers, you are are already logging call details - why do most of you
> need anything?
>
> If everyone IT integrator in the country claimed, we'd have over 2k-3k
> applicants and no one getting much at all.
>
> I think a lot of people are buying new networking equipment with these
> funds. I am not sure the fund was designed to build the networks of ISPs.
>
> Some of the massive requests are astounding and begs the question "WHAT
> are people buying with it?"
>
> I think the AG make all the applications public since they've made the
> result public. We need context to some of these extremely excessive
> allocations.
>
> There is no jealousy here. There is a dozen of my customers on the list,
> but all mostly realistic.
>
> Those that say we should just move on have no respect for the stewardship
> of these resources.
>
> Bring on the flames.
>
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