[8972] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: ANS Salaries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Williams)
Tue Dec 14 09:04:23 1993
From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
To: cook@path.net (Gordon Cook)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 09:03:12 -0500 (EST)
Cc: karl@mcs.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9312132128.aa05866@pandora.sf.ca.us> from "Gordon Cook" at Dec 13, 93 09:28:30 pm
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> Well Carl I agree that a self supporting company ought to be able to pay its
> employees what they are worth as you put it. But I don't believe ANS matches this profile.
>
> For the same period of time that is coverfed by the 990 they spent over 11 million on the backbone. They received almost 11 million from the national science
> foundation (IE from the US taxpayer) to do this. Their network income was I
> believe less than $200,000 from source apart from the US government. Their
> profit making subsidiary CO+RE LOST $3,849,701.00. So I really doubt that
> they fit the profile of the company that you described.
Those facts I find significant, the salaries I do not. There are many
companies that receive grants and contracts from the US Gov. Do you
think that the execs at GE, CSC, etc. have lower salaries because they
do gov. business?
sdw
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