I’m sitting at the main square of pleasant polish town - Szczecinek. As the town aims to be a resort there’s a free hotspot at the square. Of course it istn’t completely free, because every time you open a webpage it opens another tab with page of one of the hotspot’s sponsors. It also cuts off the internet (pings don’t come back) leaving me with 4 pages of the town 
BUT
there are plenty other - non goverment-sponsored WiFi hotspots here which don’t require passwords, and (probably) don’t limit your acces! Is it a dream of OpenWLAN coming true?
No! It’s a bad sign. Those are probably normal home private networks which administrators either don’t want them to be secured or don’t know how to do that (or worse - they dont know that it CAN be secured).
This forces me to say that polish people should learn more before they buy their children Neostrada (popular ADSL service provided by polish quasi-monopolist in telecomunication - it’s slow, unstable, and expensivie in comparison to other broadband providers).
What does it mean that more and more people are connected if they don’t even try to get known this new invention an its rules. For them Internet, Neostrada and Internet Explorer are synonymous. Polish net is full of Neostrada’s children spending all their time on chats, and making their blogs even more pink.
However it’s not so shocking when you know that for ex-PM of this country internet is a big mystery (a land with colourful characters and ugly, slippery viruses), and bank account is nothing in comparison to his mother’s cupboard, if you want to store your money. He and other people like him show us the real attitude for internet of average Pole. Unbelievable! I don’t how it is in other countries, but definetly not so bad…
I have to be going now, because the square is getting empty - people come home for dinner - and the quare is going to be a dangerous place for a lonely boy with his laptop 
