[880] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Yet More Publicity for The Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Fri Jun 28 14:09:17 1991
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 91 13:06:28 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: (Gordon Lee's message of Fri, 28 Jun 91 10:49:19 -0400 <9106281449.AA16654@ftp.com>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Gordon Lee (gordon@ftp.com) writes:
>been very high. The political landscape will change. Today on the
>Internet we have something more akin to the politics of early America,
>a society of gentleman farmers. In the future, who knows, the academics
>who have traditionally been able to make things happen in a "correct"
>fashion for the Internet will have to deal with representatives from
>large corporate users, who will be promoting different interests.
Or perhaps the large corporate users will ignore all the stuff the
academics have done and set up their own newsnet, mailing lists, etc.,
completely independent of what we have. (Especially when they see,
for example, how disorganized the existing newsnet is.)
Remember, one of the Net's greatest strengths is massive parallelism.
:-)
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