Newsgroups: comp.admin.policy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article In-Reply-To: kadie@herodotus.cs.uiuc.edu's message of Mon, 3 Jun 1991 01: 36:39 GMT Message-ID: Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World References: <1991Jun1.164136.4553@herald.usask.ca> Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1991 04:02:16 GMT Lines: 30 >The UNIVERSITY bought the equipment. The UNIVERSITY owns the equipment. The >UNIVERSITY gets to say how the equipment is to be used, who can use it, and >what rules these users have to follow. This is far too extreme a view and naive. The UNIVERSITY also took money from students in the form of tuition, and from researchers in the form of overhead and/or direct charges. That's how they buy and pay for the equipment. In general, when you take money in a transaction, you lose certain rights of private ownership. Just like when a landlord rents you an apartment he can no longer put his friends up there, or even enter the premises without cause. If the UNIVERSITY (why are we shouting that word? sounds like the word of the day at pee-wee's playhouse), or any other organization, wants complete control of the equipment they are "free" to cease taking money for its use, indirectly or otherwise. The university is charged with the administration and dispensation of resources acquired for particular purposes from general funds. But that is soas to fulfill their obligations, not as a protector of private property in the simplistic sense you expound. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | bzs@world.std.com | uunet!world!bzs Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD