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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Death to binaries (was re: pictures in binaries)
Keywords: Like wow, man.
Message-ID: <2141@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 15:49:29 GMT
References: <4476@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2132@sugar.UUCP> <605@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
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In article ... vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
> In article <2132@sugar.UUCP>, peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > [deleted stuff]
> >  USENET is whatever the people paying the bills
> > say it is. Most of the bills are being paid by Big Nasty Corporations

> I wonder what the proportion of academic nodes is in USENET.

Universities are also Big Nasty Corporations, even the ones financed by
the Top Carnivore of Organised Crime (the government). They also have to
meet their bills and to do that they have to deliver a product: graduated
students. I'm sure that everything I've said about the top levels of real
corporations is largely true about universities... they just don't know what's
going on down in the trenches.

> If all usenet
> is carried by commercial operations what you say is right. Perhaps we need
> a parallel set up: One that will continue even if all the commercial users
> pull out. After all Universities need to keep the faculties and the slaves
> (aka grad students) happy. Some research labs too will have to stay in
> for the same reasons

The commercial users aren't likely to pull out completely, but they may well
stop carrying anything but comp.unix.* and comp.sources.unix.
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