[11371] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Culture Shock (was Re: Options)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Wed Mar 30 15:45:58 1994
To: lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu (Bruce Gingery)
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 00:29:58 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: poole@magnolia.eunet.ch, gwh@crl.com, karl@mcs.com,
stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05.9403291400.A23264-b100000@antelope.wcc.edu> from "Bruce Gingery" at Mar 29, 94 02:42:05 pm
From: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
> Considering the history of CERN initiatives, and the science and
> technology heritage of Switzerland in the world, I guess the title
> "Culture Shock" pretty well sums up my response to "....only been legal
> since 22 months".
Actually I would agree that the situation has improved in western Europe
over the last couple of years, but for example in a number of eastern
European countries the situation is pretty hopeless.
While we are talking about high barriers to entry in to a market: currently
to become a NSP in Spain, you have to provide a bond of roughly 100kECU
(~$115k).
Simon
