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Re: Canceling someone else's article

#466
From: Kevin Lowey
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1991 16:41
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From article <qDuu34w164w@bluemoon.uucp>, by sbrack@bluemoon.uucp (Steven S. Brack):
>         And in the case of a University computer system?
> 
>         I could see the logic developing:
>         The owner is in control -> the computer is owned by the university
>         the university is owned by the taxpayers -> the taxpayers have
>         control over the computer -> students are taxpayers ->
>         students control what use the computers are put to.

That does not really apply here.  Although our university is funded partially
by tax money, partially by student fees, etc, that does NOT mean that any old
taxpayer has the right to use our equipment.  Try telling the government that
since I paid for Airforce 1, I have the right to use it to go to the lake on
weekends ...

The UNIVERSITY bought the equipment.  The UNIVERSITY owns the equipment.  The 
UNIVERSITY gets to say how the equipment is to be used, who can use it, and 
what rules these users have to follow.

- Kevin Lowey
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From: lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey)
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Subject: Re: Canceling someone else's article
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.164136.4553@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 1 Jun 91 16:41:36 GMT
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