[45541] in Cypherpunks
Re: Is ths legal?...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Sun Dec 17 21:04:56 1995
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 19:45:20 -0500
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: "Declan B. McCullagh" <declan+@CMU.EDU>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <ckp8qg_00bkNQ1VJVI@andrew.cmu.edu>
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
> State funding by itself is not sufficient. If that were true, CMU --
> which receives almost half its revenue from the government -- would have
> to behave reasonably. (It doesn't; check out
> http://joc.mit.edu/~joc/cmu.html)
There is some precedent for Federal funding being used to influence the
behaviour of universities - most notably with anti-discrimination. I
don't think federal contracts affect this particular area.
Simon
