Re: ?End of Internet as we know it

[David Farber <farber@central.cis.upenn.edu>]

>Posted-Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 14:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
>Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1993 14:30:35 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
>Subject: Re: ?End of Internet as we know it 
>To: John Curran <jcurran@nic.near.net>
>Cc: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>, com-priv@psi.com
>

<<<<<<I have removed a long conversation but wanted to bring to  your
attention the following statement . ... DJF >>>>>


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>  New models are being created to deal with contemporary realities, by the
>research and education mission cannot survive if it does not remain
>liberated from profit maximizing pressures.  The sale of information by
>libraries, and the sale of network connectivity by educators, could be a
>great marketing tool for private industry.  But converting our libraries
>and colleges into sales outlets for the telco-computer-information giants,
>is not my idea of a viable future for the NREN/Internet.  Others who have
>been experimenting with these ideas have come to similar conclusions. 
>[Berry, K. Wayne's World: OCLC Confronts the Future, in LIBRARY JOURNAL
>Vol 118, No. 9, May 15, 1993, at 28].
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>Vigdor
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