[1290] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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impact of settlements on provision of free services

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Fri Aug 30 19:04:17 1991

Date: Fri, 30 Aug 91 17:51:09 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
In-Reply-To: Barry Shein's message of Thu, 29 Aug 91 22:11:51 -0400 <9108300211.AA08369@world.std.com>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu


>Unfortunately, networking is inherently a shared resource, so there's
>no such easy way out of the issue.

True, but perhaps it would be better if sharing decisions were left up
to the computer people, rather than the money people, who (presumably)
won't know what we do as well as we do.

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