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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: EFF and its growing pains...
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:42:47 +0000
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- :Let's say a researcher gets a grant, and gets a "network voucher" good for
- :$250/yr as part of it. They could get a 20-hour-a-month account on World,
- :they could give it to their campus network staff as their part of the
- :cost-sharing on the $2000/mo high-speed connection, they could get a SLIP
- :connection from PSI, et. al.
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- Is this EFF policy or did you just make this up on the hoof? If this is
- EFF policy, ... well, I just didn't realise how deep in right-wing politics
- EFF was seated. This is pure Thatcherism. (Vouchers don't work; they're
- inequitable and benefit the rich more than the poor. They didn't work
- in education and I doubt they'll work here).
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- Anyway, vouchers can only be spent on 'approved suppliers', and we know
- what that means. Inflated prices by a small cabal for Government contracts.
- They have no incentive to generally drop prices (and thus benefit the
- real masses who *aren't* university researchers) and the power remains
- once more with the technological elite.
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