[1587] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet

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EINet - "The Business Internet" ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Maeda)
Fri Nov 22 16:03:18 1991

From: Christopher Maeda <cmaeda@EXXON-VALDEZ.FT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 91 16:01:38 EST
To: geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, nren-discuss@psi.com
In-Reply-To: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow's message of Fri, 22 Nov 91 11:35:20 MST <9111221935.AA12781@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Reply-To: cmaeda@cs.cmu.edu

I can think of one reason why MCC is doing this -- MCC is a consortium
so they might think having their own internet with no usage
restrictions might better facilitate technology transfer between them
and their shareholder companies.

Disclaimer: It's been years since I worked for MCC so consider
everything in this message uninformed speculation.

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