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Michael P. Sakowski attended the University of Maryland at College Park, where he took a dual degree program in Electrical Engineering and Physics, minoring in Computer Science. Since then, he has been self-employed in several businesses including real estate renovation and development, and electronics sales and services. He later studied screenwriting at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore at the Homewood Campus, and has since written three screenplays that are in development. He is currently writing one fiction novel, one non-fiction philosophical treatise, and a guidebook to advanced industrial electronics.

Sakowski is president of Cabcraft Engineering, an electronics engineering services firm in Baltimore, Maryland. He writes from his office on a hilltop in Curtis Bay, Maryland, which overlooks all of Southern Baltimore and the Patapsco River.

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Computers & Technology > Internet Access & Providers Is municipal wi-fi a good idea?

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The biggest problem I have with government-backed WiFi is that it is an intrusion into private enterprise by the government that will only lead to inefficiencies and ultimately, higher taxes for us all. The government has no right to compete with private enterprise in the first place, since we are living in a capitalistic system where entrepreneurs wanting to start new business ventures can raise money at any time. How is it fair, for private individuals who must fulfill stringent tests to secure financing, to have to try to compete with a government-backed network, which is run for free w...

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