[2781] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: The fate of Internet, further comments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Hibbert)
Tue Jun 2 17:31:38 1992
To: drw@bourbaki.mit.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: hibbert@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: <9206012012.AA29068@kronecker>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 92 11:02:15 -0700
From: Chris Hibbert <hibbert@xanadu.com>
>>3. The Internet will be sold as a service for a fee, rather
>>than being delivered by a club-like consortium effort between a
>>small number of widely scattered users.
>A huge mistake...
>>(Well, not be be snide, but why are you here? If you're against
>>commercialization and privatization of the Internet, why are you on
>>the mailing list to advocate and plan commercialization and
>>privitization?)
Is this mailing list really restricted to people who advocate
unrestricted expansion in all possible ways? :-) I thought it was
for discussing the possible directions that commercialization and
privatization might go, to consider alternative models, and to
give advice to the planners of these things. Seems to me that
calling particular parts of particular plans misguided is well
within the scope of the charter.
And besides, no one ever asked me to sign a loyalty oath saying I
was in favor, even in general, of the ideas being discussed on this
list. Are people who want to argument against the general
directions being discussed here not welcome?
Chris
