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- From: vchang@cory.Berkeley.EDU (V. Chang)
- Subject: Re: Justification for commercial access to INTERNET facilities?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.003414.4531@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 00:34:14 GMT
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- hey whoa! it's not like the government is giving free access to
- the companies! Big companies have to shell out some big bucks
- for net access. So it's then less of a burden on tax payers.
- (And if things ever get way out of hand, (like an excessively
- popular ftp site) whoever is in charge can always restrict
- access until they get a chance to improve the system.)
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- Also some commercial organizations have pretty big R&D departments
- so keeping in touch with other government and academic organizations
- makes sense.
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- The Internet is becoming more and more mainstream. Public
- access systems are appearing and commercial systems like
- CompuServe are getting net connections. It's no longer the
- toy of the researchers. Frivolous? perhaps, but it seems
- that certain people are willing to shell out bucks to pay
- for their frivolous habits and help support the costs of
- maintaining a bit of the net.
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- -Victor
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