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From: rodney@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (Rodney Peck II)
Subject: Re: Commercial Archives
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Date: 23 Jun 91 20:58:20 GMT
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In article <LAWS.91Jun22223423@sunset.ai.sri.com> laws@ai.sri.com (Kenneth I. Laws) writes:
>(... Prof. John McCarthy claims
>that the existance of the Arpanet eventually interfered with
>commercial network development, leading to the current
>revolutionary acceptance of a rather poor FAX standard.)

I think Prof. John McCarthy is making an awful lot of assumptions.  FAXs and
the internet are not all that closely related.  Maybe if you want to make
some sort of argument that the internet had stalled commercial development
of telephone switching networks and their digital side, you might have
something.  Then again, you probably wouldn't since the internet (including
the global portions) is extremely small compared to the phone switching
networks.

>Instead of following the consultant model, you seem to be
>following the public library model.  Why?  There's no money
>in it.

because there's more to life than money.

Comp.archives seemed to me to be a project that developed as a Neat Thing
that was useful to many people, not a way for some people to get rich.

-- 
Rodney
