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- From: au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben)
- Newsgroups: news.misc,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,alt.amateur-comp,misc.misc
- Subject: Re: How is the Net financed and what does it cost?
- Date: 18 Nov 1992 16:21:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: au329@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ronda Hauben)
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- In a previous article, bhoughto@sedona.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) says:
-
- >In article <34HwTB1w164w@rbyte.proteus.qc.ca> grb@rbyte.proteus.qc.ca (G. Randolph Bickerton) writes:
- >>In an earlier response to this overall question someone's signature stated
- >>that "there is no such thing as a free lunch!" . As for the internet there
- >>is just a lot of "charity". WE all share the net because some larger
- >>organizations ( academic, corporate, government etc) have the hardware in
- >>place; pay for the major transmission costs and let the little guy
- >>piggyback.
- >
- >Cooperation, not charity.
- >
- >You pay your portion of the hard costs of the net, just
- >like you pay for the lavatories in your workplace and the
- >managers who run your life for you. Even if you don't have
- >to write the check, it comes out of the grand collection of
- >the world's resources you are allowed to use before someone
- >slaps your wrist and says you're hogging wrt your contribution.
- >
- > --Blair
- > "I want to be anarchy."
- > -Johnny Lydon
- >
-
- But the net is different from lavatories - those who use and contribute
- to the net are creating SOCIAL WEALTH. The "world's largest machine"
- that has been created via the interconnection and contributions
- of many computer users around the world is the creation of a new
- asset to the world and to the future - (not a using up of something
- as the above suggests.)
- ronda
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