[100] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: NSF censoring sites around the Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Sun Nov 11 18:53:31 1990
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 90 18:40:31 EST
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
To: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Funny I thought that overhead was the mechanism that Universities used for things
like libraries, telephones etc. What makes you think that the Gov will for long
allow explicit charging in research grants for networking. It bearly does now for
computing.
Also suppose for argument that a researcher for competitive reasons in pricing
his/her grant does not put in a networking charge (or is told to remove it by the
granter). Where does the money come from then.
Also there is the real philosophical question of why the science research budget
should pay for networking for the masses in academia.
Dave
