[2842] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: commercial use of publicly funded infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Ollikainen)
Fri Jun 12 13:50:30 1992
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 92 10:49:16 PDT
From: ari@viipuri.nersc.gov (Ari Ollikainen)
To: craig@aland.bbn.com, rtennant@library.berkeley.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>>Oh phooey -- on those grounds no public agency should ever pay a moving
>>company because moving companies ship goods in trucks via publicly
>>subsidized highways.
Phooey**2...If the trucks were also publicly "owned" or furnished through a
subsidy then the only value added here would be the labor of the movers...
It must have been too early in the day to keep the analogy straight :-)
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