When pray tell did the Govt pay for my piece of the Internet. I do not recall ever getting any funds from them to pay for it.
I sure would appreciate getting back my $70,000 spent on Internet stuff over the years. Somehow I expect you are not counting anything spent by non-govt people to mount the current Internet. Your arguments are totally bogus;-)...\Stef At 23:06 -0700 01/03/02, Ken Freed wrote: >Examples are any nation on earth where the government owns the phone >company, India for example. I'm more of a free marketeer than a socialist, >to be sure, but by natural law, if the people rightfully own the government >that constructs the network of interconnected networks, like a city builds >roads that connect the private homes, this makes the Internet public. > >Let me raise a related issue, mostly to gather information to educate myself. >Who can give details of development of Internet2, the next generation of the >Internet? Where is the money coming from? What about its governance? > >Thanks for wisdom. >-- ken > > > > > > > > > > >At 04:19 PM 3/1/02 -0700, you wrote: > >>And outside of the USA, Internet development mostly was funded by > >>governments. > > > >An interesting assertion. Can you back it up? > > > >First of all there really wasn't that much "Internet development" > >to speak of. In fact it didn't exists. Perhaps you're thinking > >of the ARPAnet. > > > >At any rate, the UUCP network, which remains larger than the > >TCP/IP ARPAnet, was larger then the arpanet and by the time > >they'r all merged into what we now refer to as "the internet" > >it was about 1996. UUCP was never government funded. > > > > > >-- > > Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't > > change the world. It's the only thing that ever has. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
