[234] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Should the NREN be funded?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (stev knowles)
Thu Feb 28 12:09:39 1991
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 91 11:53:15 -0500
To: schoff@psi.com (Marty Schoffstall)
From: stev@ftp.com (stev knowles)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
- Modify the bill to minimize the amount of funds reserved for
network research, which will now be partially provided by
commercial firms in their own interest.
i will not address the rest of this posting, since it expresses the publicly
held opinions for PSI, but i would like to address this one point. there are
a large number of people who feel that this industry is starting to hurt
because of the lack of funding for general research done by "non-political"
parties (university type people). i feel that, in general, most companies
will only invest in technologies that they feel are primary to their current
business. between that and the fact that useful things are being developed
that are functionally non-changable because one company "ownes" it (like
NFS), lead me to believe that we need to start investing in non-partisan
research again, with the federal funding as a part of this.
stev knowles
stev@ftp.com
VP Engineering
