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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
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Subject: Re: Internet/NSFNet proposal to be run by IBM -- call to action!
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Date: 31 Oct 90 18:15:13 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.081304.14531@lth.se>, e85rw@efd.lth.se (Ricard Wolf)
writes:
> EXACTLY!!!!! Please remember that IBM is not interested in making
> anything else but money! If the machine works, it's an added bonus, but not
> really part of the specification :-) :-). If they could have made money
> marketing peas they would have done so ("oh, you want a container to transport
> the peas home in? well that is an optional extra").

The government would be much less responsive.  At least if you needed a container
from IBM or whomever you could get one.  With the government running things
you might get a container if you could prove that everyone needed one and
then only after the peas had spoilt.

Things work well because we have a org that is not keeping a strick close
eye on things.  With the budget in the shambles that it is in, do you really
think that the US government is not going to take a much more active role
in the who/what/when/where of the network?  Is this really what you all want?

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