[10470] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Debating the NII "Truisms"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Fri Feb 25 05:50:07 1994
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 12:54:12 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 7:39 PM 2/12/94 -0500, Dick St.Peters wrote:
>I think we're close to agreement in principle. The government should
>not go into taxpayer-funded competition with existing businesses,
>with certain exceptions I'm too tired and hungry to think about now.
I trust that you're not too tired to consider competition such as the SEC
Edgar data, the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, etc. If the
government gives these govt docs away for free, then by definition the
government would be in competition with existing business. I for one think
that in such cases, the government has the obligation to "compete" with
such businesses.
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Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
(415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
