[389] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
not really commercial vs non-commercial
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marty Schoffstall)
Fri Mar 15 15:30:44 1991
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 14:00:51 -0500
From: schoff@psi.com (Marty Schoffstall)
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Cc: nren-discuss@psi.com
To disagree both with Richard and Dennis....
Making a mark, creating a new paridigm, beginning a revolution have
little to do with the commercial vs non-commercial issues.
They have to do with individuals, individuals that go beyond just
the idea but the execution of an idea. Sometime it is an individual
that brings a large institution to do something, but this is very
very rare at least in the US experience. [I'm not trying to be
parochial merely focused].
This individual can come out of academia, the business world, the
government, or a church, it doesn't matter.
Others can follow or copy and sometime even overcome that "rugged
individualist". But they aren't written in the history books with
the likes of an:
Gutenberg, Edison, DuPont, Moody, John Foster Dulles, JFK, Jobs, Perot, etc.
Nor do they change the shape of the way the culture/business/organization/market
continues, create new jobs, new wealth, or possibly new liberties.
I'm very aware that this is in some sense this is the archetype American belief,
and that there are many different beliefs about industrial, managemental,
organizational philosophy, i've read and studied them both formally
and informally.
But I place it here as one man's thought, with a warning not to forget
the purely human factor,
Marty
