[10479] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
RE: Debating the NII "Truisms"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The future Ross Stapleton-Gray)
Fri Feb 25 08:17:47 1994
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 1994 16:35:14 -0700 (MST)
From: The future Ross Stapleton-Gray <STAPLETON@bpa.arizona.edu>
To: bzs@world.std.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Re keeping government out of educational content, the fact of the matter
is that we've got *governments* doing it today and have all along. One
benefit from having a national program produce educational content (and
not have it be a monopoly producer, mind you) is that the state and
local control is softened.
The challenge would be to design a program that of necessity tolerated a
diversity of views. And for that matter I'd like to see more international
content than we've had...could you imagine including foreign bidders in
the process for producing the American history resources? :-)
I'm not saying that this doesn't take thinking, I'm just noting that
replicating bits is a trivial matter if you own the copyright, and there's
a certain delicious economy of scale here.
Ross
