[11704] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Clinton Adminsitration Corporate Network Socialism? (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Humphrey)
Thu Apr 14 22:00:06 1994
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 1994 21:32:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Doug Humphrey <digex@ss1.digex.net>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>to be fair, its not quite that simple: many of those employers were/are
>receiving government contracts precisely to work on Internet engineering
>activities (to cite a few: BBN, GTE, MITRE, SRI, lots of universities)
Ah! Being taxpayers too, can I expect to go pick up a copy of
all of that nice software that was developed in large part with
my (and your) tax dollars? I think it sounds like a lot of fun being
able to provide that kind of secure shopping service; perhaps I will
go do that! Or am I likely to be disappointed when I go tell them
that my company would like to use it all too?
Doug
