[10419] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Dick St. Peters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dick St.Peters)
Tue Feb 22 10:34:31 1994
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 94 10:27:29 EST
From: stpeters@spare-parts.crd.ge.com (Dick St.Peters)
To: nettech@crl.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Reply-To: <stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com>
>From: "Joseph W. Stroup" <nettech@crl.com>
>Subject: Dick St. Peters
Well Joseph, I'm honored to have become a topic.
>Dick if the gov't can't do business in the open, too bad. I am tired
>of deals made in the shadows. If ANS/MCI or whoever gets the contract
>an its really for research, then why is the info about the contract
>so secret ?
Joseph, it's business that won't do business in the open. You can complain
about government not doing business in the open, *or* about government not
getting the best business has to offer, but you can't complain about both.
(Well, you can, nothing says you have to be rational.)
Take your pick. You're entitled to complain about one of these.
>Don't defend the system, you work for GE - Better living through
>the "Nose cone for thr MX Missle".
Not anymore; GE got out of the gov't business - sold it off. I'll let
you speculate why. (There are exceptions: GE Medical still sells medical
equipment - standard products - to the VA, for example, and R&D does work
under gov't contracts and grants. I'm working on one for teleradiology.)
>You are defending the right to back door dealing. I have no problem
>with that if and when the gov't changes the rules. If they do , so be it.
>If not then abide by the rules and quit making excuses.
I'm not defending anything. I'm telling you a fact of business; I
never said I liked it, or that it is good, right, proper, etc.
I'm curious what you think I've done that you have to lecture me to abide
by the rules.
--
Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, The Pearly Gateway; currently at:
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.com
