[9775] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Drafting Legislation [Who *Are* These Folks?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Fri Jan 21 02:06:46 1994
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 23:05:11 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
Cc: rothman@netcom.com, <steeler@well.sf.ca.us>, cosndisc@bitnic.BITNET,
At 12:11 PM 1/20/94 -0400, David Rothman wrote:
>Please tell us more about yourself and OSS. Who started your group?
>Who's funding it? Who are your biggest contribors? Amounts? Size of your
>budget? Corporate and industry affiliations of board members, president,
>chair, etc? How many members? Presumably you believe in the "open books"
>approach here.
[nb: etc. etc. ... a bit "more of the same" deleted]
I've known Bob for a couple of years having been to his OSS conference
twice, last year on a panel on intellectual property issues on the NII.
Bob can easily speak for himself (or "defend" himself if you'd like), but
I'd like to pose the following:
David, I think that your questions were an unwarranted attack. How would
you react if every time you push Teleread (which, I might add, is virtually
EVERY message you post!) someone asked you the same questions? WOuld you
open your books?
Since Bob's OSS is a non-profit corporation, I believe the books ARE open.
I know that he has posted financials on the bulletin board at his
conference.
btw, Bob's background IS with the intel community -- he was with the Marine
Corps intelligence center at Quantico. He does not hide this. Quite the
contrary...
>The only real solution is a well-integrated national library system
>online, together with support of local libraries, the Internet and other
>alternative means. That way we benefit from centralization but have
>checks and balances.
I, too, have been touting online libraries for over two years -- it was a
major part of my Congressional platform when I ran in the Democratic
primary in California in 1992. But, do you think it really appropriate to
raise this relative to this? Couldn't we start challenging YOUR motives
for raising Teleread?
Perhaps Bob's message hit you at a bad moment, or perhaps you had a bad
week. I'd just suggest that you should consider how you would react if
someone said the same things to you...
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Glenn Tenney
tenney@netcom.com Amateur radio: AA6ER
(415) 574-3420 Fax: (415) 574-0546
