[10395] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: $50 Million Dollar Gift
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Sugarman)
Mon Feb 21 10:40:17 1994
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 1994 10:32:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Sugarman <sugarman@panix.com>
To: "Dick St.Peters" <stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com>
Cc: cook@path.net, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9402210159.AA11166@spare-parts.crd.Ge.Com>
Your analogy of IRS returns is misplaced. One is forced to file IRS
returns, but not forced to enter into $50 million dollar deals with the
government. Somehow, it would seem the press's business to know how 50
mill of tax dollars is being spent.
On Sun, 20 Feb 1994, Dick St.Peters wrote:
> >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
>
