[10385] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: $50 Million Dollar Gift
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Sun Feb 20 21:01:21 1994
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 94 20:59:51 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>
>Yet the bid was advertised as a **cooperative agreement** for
>PRE-competitive technology which, last thing I heard, meant this stuff was
>still R&D enough so that the rules of non disclosure for fear of loosing
>COMPETITIVE advantage would not apply. I fail to see how your logic holds.
Well, Gordon, I don't think you even want to understand, so I won't
bother trying to explain. But I will give you a hint: dig up a copy
of the January issue of TeleStragies' "Insight" and read *why* Jerry
Lucas put ATM first on his list of the top ten losers for this year.
>Since when are closed door deals none of the press' business??
When they involve private information. If you need help in understanding
the principle, your last IRS tax audit was a closed door deal.
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
