[956] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Privitization is the issue today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Markoff)
Fri Jul 12 11:52:48 1991
From: markoff@nyt.com (John Markoff)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 11:11:51 GMT
Reply-To: markoff@nyt.com (John Markoff)
> > John Markoff of New York Times.
>
> He's been treating ANS with kid gloves; did you see the little puff piece
> about Al Weis? "Al decided he was going to leave IBM to start his own
> little networking company, and IBM thought it was such a good idea that
> they decided to give him $20 million." Really. So kind of them.
>
> --Ed
Ouch! now things are getting out of hand. People have taken to misquoting
journalists....
for the record here is what I wrote....
HEADLINE: Making a Difference;
A Passion for Networking
BYLINE: By JOHN <MARKOFF>
BODY:
For Allan H. <Weis,> building computer networks has been a hobby and a
passion for more than 20 years. So last year, when the computer designer told
Jack Kuehler, president of the International Business Machines Corporation, that
he was leaving the company to build a national high-speed data network, Mr.
Kuehler joked that Mr. <Weis> wasn't going to be working, "he was going to be on
vacation and enjoying himself."
>>>.np
(c) 1991 The New York Times, June 9, 1991
A 30-year veteran of I.B.M., Mr. <Weis> left with $10 million in donations
from his former employer and the MCI Communications Corporation. He used the
money to found Advanced Network and Services Inc., a nonprofit corporation with
a mandate to push the private and public sectors to build a highly sophisticated
"data highway."
The highway, using fiber optics, may someday carry a wide range of computer
information and advanced television services to businesses, research centers,
schools and homes. Many technology experts argue that such a network is vital if
the country is to remain competitive in the next century.
Last week, Mr. <Weis> announced the formation of a for-profit unit that would
permit commercial use of Internet, a precursor to the high-speed highway.
Commercial involvement in Internet, which was developed with money from the
National Science Foundation, is crucial to the building of a far faster national
network, said Mr. <Weis.>
The creation of the new subsidiary, ANS CO+RE Systems Inc., is a key step in
the delicate political task that Mr. <Weis> has undertaken to fashion a
consortium of private and public supporters. Until now, Internet has been used
for scientific research. In the future, it will also carry corporate research
>>>.np
(c) 1991 The New York Times, June 9, 1991
and commercial data.
"The Federal Government originally seeded the network," said the 52-year-old
Mr. <Weis,> whose company is based in Elmsford, N.Y., not too far from I.B.M.'s
headquarters in Armonk. "Industry has a real responsibility to help build this
kind of infrastructure. I thought that if we could pull the right kind of people
together we could leverage a wide range of resources."
GRAPHIC: Photo: Allan H. <Weis.>
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