[2853] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: commercial use of publicly funded infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy Tennant)
Mon Jun 15 10:53:51 1992
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 92 07:49:24 PDT
From: rtennant@library.Berkeley.EDU (Roy Tennant)
To: craig@aland.bbn.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
>> What I have a problem with is private companies charging public
>> entities (libraries, universities, etc.) for using publicly-funded
>> infrastructure and *making a profit* at it.
>
>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.
Excuse me, but I believe a better analogy would be a private company
assessing a surchage for using public highways to get to their place
of business. But I think probably everyone has had enough of this
by now. I know I have.
Roy
