[10381] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: $50 Million Dollar Gift
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Feb 20 18:10:57 1994
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 94 18:07:58 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: cook@path.net
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>I have heard zero from AT&T. Publically or privately. I know a BUNCH
>of folk there, *all* of whom aren't talking. Sure would be interesting
>o receive a copy of their prop.....but that's ONE thing that hasNOT
>dropped into my mailbox recently.
Good. Having seen things from the inside of an AT&T-size company, I
know that concern about what might be revealed about their strategy and
capabilities sometimes keeps large companies from bidding their best
technology or even from bidding at all. The government has a decidedly
mixed record at keeping secrets revealed under non-disclosure.
To AT&T the vbns is peanuts, but the telecommunications business
certainly is not. It only takes one person to give away the store, and
having a Gordon Cook pursuing a vendetta against the NSF, digging for
with intent to publicize stuff that's none of his business, may well
have kept AT&T from bidding its best.
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
