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Re: Letter to NSF re: Internet Pricing

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From: Tom Reingold
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 13:57
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kudzu@netcom.com (Michael Sierchio) writes:

> [...]  Don't forget -- Columbus and Neal Armstrong didn't get
> to their respective destinations as the result of "free enterprise".

This is a silly argument.  My reading rec.autos and misc.kids is not
going to lead to any great innovation.  How absurd to compare it to
discovering a continent and landing on the moon.
-- 
Tom Reingold
AT&T Bell Labs, Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel, NJ, USA
tommy@big.att.com or att!big!tommy
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From: tommy@big.att.com (Tom Reingold)
Subject: Re: Letter to NSF re: Internet Pricing
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