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- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: Justification for commercial access to INTERNET facilities?
- Date: 15 Nov 92 20:56:13
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
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- Message-ID: <FRANL.92Nov15205613@draco.centerline.com>
- References: <1992Nov11.142748.8626@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1e5b1tINNgds@neuro.usc.edu>
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- In-reply-to: adamg@world.std.com's message of Sun, 15 Nov 1992 20:21:02 GMT
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- adamg@world.std.com (Adam M Gaffin) writes:
-
- > merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:
- >
- > > What is the justification for allowing the connection of commercial
- > > entities ... to the federally subsidized ... INTERNET ... ?
-
- > ... as a taxpayer, I have to ask why I should not be
- > allowed to use something my tax dollars have paid for? If my government
- > is pouring a lot of money into a network that provides such interesting
- > and useful services as online libraries and databases, why should this be
- > treated any differently than, say, a federal depository library?
-
- I second that opinion. The goverment exists to serve its citizens.
- ARPAnet was the kind of forward-looking technology that the government
- has a mandate to pursue (even create), especially when private
- industry lacks the mechanisms for such long-term development. But
- such government-spawned technolgy SHOULD NOT REMAIN PURELY FOR THE USE
- OF GOVERNMENT.
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