[61] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: competition [answer to the question]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postm)
Tue Oct 30 22:28:32 1990
From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <9010302243.AA04960@buitb>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 90 19:05:20 -0800
A hearty "What He Said!" from me in support of Kent England's point.
The very same forces have also kept the various commercial E-mail
services from connecting to each other (well, that, and gross ignorance
too). That they do today is a tribute to the sheer size of the
Internet, and their desire to offer connectivity to our community as a
competitive advantage, which, incidentally, connects them to each other
through us.
I bet that PSInet and AlterNet haven't connected to each other yet
because they haven't figured out how to charge each other for it.
Is that an FCC regulator I see on the horizon? Or is it Judge Greene?
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
