[12852] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: EFF Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (baer@jessica.stanford.edu)
Tue May 31 22:44:29 1994
Date: Tue, 31 May 1994 14:51:27 -0700
To: Ira Brodsky (via RadioMail) <brodsky@radiomail.net>
From: baer@jessica.stanford.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>Sole proprietorships are individuals.
True enough.
>And I'm not certain it's self-evident the people who form corporations should
>have to relinquish their rights as individuals, much as lawyers would
>sometimes like them to do. <g>
Granted, it's not self-evident. Do note that the major _benefit_ to being a
corporation is that the individual owner is protected from having all their
assets taken when the corporation fails/is sued, etc. How many stockholders
are willing to trade this benefit away?
--Paul Baer
