From: rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray)
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 93 08:56:30 PDT
To: gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore)
Subject: Re: EFF bribery and corruption, not!
In-Reply-To: <9308311533.AA21900@toad.com>
Message-ID: <9308311553.AA02449@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain


John Gilmore () writes:
> 
> > True or False, the EFF accepted money from AT&T in return for the EFF's
> > support on various issues/bills before congress wherein AT&T came out on
> > top in it's effort to commercialize parts of the Internet for it's own
> > monetary gain?

 Oh, the horrors! Just think about it. A corporation doing something for
profit!

  I'll be cheering the day when AT&T, MCI, Sprint, the Baby Bells, and
the Cable Companies start offering internet service to the home at
affordale rates. 

(In fact, I've already read news on Clarinet of some cable company's
plan to sell a cable-modem pc card giving high speed internet access
at not much more than going phone rates)


-- Ray Cromwell        |    Engineering is the implementation of science;    --
-- EE/Math Student     |       politics is the implementation of faith.      --
-- rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu  |                         - Zetetic Commentaries      --