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Article #2137Re: Letter to NSF re: Internet Pricing
From: Perry E. Metzger
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 21:51
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 21:51
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In article <1029@mitech.com> gjc@mitech.com (George J. Carrette) writes: >> Don't forget -- Columbus and Neal Armstrong didn't get >> to their respective destinations as the result of "free enterprise". >You are obviously IGNORANT about the history you quote to support >your arguments. > The Columbus expeditions were privately funded! > Important fact of life number 259. >Queen Isabella, patron saint of Venture Capitalists. For that matter, let us note that we didn't stay on the moon, and that the settlement of the British colonies was carried out almost entirely by joint stock companies. In my opinion, the NSF should go away and let PSI, Alternet and the rest continue their excellent job of running large fractions of the internet on a purely private basis. -- Perry Metzger perry@imsi.com -- Are American citizens really so neurotically uptight about deviant sexual behavior that we will allow our entire information infrastructure to be dictated by the existence of pedophiles? -- Bruce Sterling
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