[958] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Privitization is the issue today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Fri Jul 12 12:27:31 1991
To: markoff@nyt.com (John Markoff)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 12 Jul 91 11:11:51 +0000.
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 91 12:26:31 -0400
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
"Donation" ?? I hope they're not trying to write it off on their taxes.
It looked much more transparently like an investment to me, sort of
seed capital for a commercial venture, one which was going to immediately
turn around and take a big stake in exactly one project (one which
just happened to use IBM equipment and IBM engineering and with IBM
employees or IBM-funded people running the show).
Did ANS get their 501(c)3 non-profit status? I'd have hoped to see
some coverage of that, especially in light of their recent for-profit
spinoff. Given that there are semi-permeable barriers keeping the money and
the people on these various projects apart, it would be interesting
to see the accounting books to see just how they're juggling things.
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