[11373] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Culture Shock (was Re: Options)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Gingery)
Wed Mar 30 16:10:53 1994
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 14:42:05 -0700 (MST)
From: Bruce Gingery <lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu>
To: Simon Poole <poole@magnolia.eunet.ch>
Cc: George Herbert <gwh@crl.com>, karl@mcs.com, poole@magnolia.eunet.ch,
stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com, com-priv@psi.com, gwh@crl.com
In-Reply-To: <199403291315.PAA09275@chsun.eunet.ch>
Simon,
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".
Perhaps that underlines the importance of lists like this.
Bruce Gingery lcbginge@antelope.wcc.edu
On Tue, 29 Mar 1994, Simon Poole wrote:
> >
> >
> > Within the western world, and certainly the USA, "political" boundaries
> > are no excuse. There _are_ political boundaries in networking, due to
> > the slow painful evolution of the networking environment (remember when
> > the AUP _meant_ something? sigh...), but those are becoming less ready
> > excuses as time goes on.
>
> Sorry to disagree, but political boundaries -are- important. For example
> providing Internet services is -illegal- in a great number of countries.
>
> Just consider a relativly civilised country like Switzerland: what we
> are doing here has only been legal since 22 months.
>
>
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