[1758] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Kuhlman's Point
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Hughes)
Mon Dec 16 20:53:18 1991
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1991 18:52:19 -0700
From: Dave Hughes <daveh@csn.org>
To: com-priv@psi.com
Charles Kuhlman ends by saying:
>The end user is the life blood and rationale for the existance of a network.
>Systems admininstration activities must take a back seat to the needs of the
>end user. Systems administrators are NEVER justified in saying `my users are a
>pain in the ---'.
>I will the first to admit (and I have) that all of this is a gross
>oversimplification. But....... Does anyone remember the old Apple Computer ad?
>The one about `computers for the rest of us'? What about high speed networking
>for the rest of us?
What a refreshing view! I mean the man actually thinks that 'end users'
are to be served, and not just the institutions linking them! Wow! Next
thing you know we will start talking about people-level Electronic
Democracy instead of the Gigabit Theocracy now in vogue.
