At 10:54 AM 5/25/99 -0400, A.M. Rutkowski wrote:
Unfair? It was NSI's risk, investment, and entrepreneurship
>over the past six years that built their segment of the
>business. They've agreed and are proceeding rapidly to
NSI had no risk and made no entrepreneurial investment.
By the time they finally decided to treat this as a real business, they had
a massive, government-protected revenue stream, with fees set to be 3-7
times too high.
This extra money provided all the investment funds.
NSI did not go out and create a business plan, acquire investment money and
then try to create a new business. THAT is entrepreneurialism, Tony. (You
should try it sometime; it's quite exciting and rewarding.)
What NSI has done is to feed at the government trough. And they did it
based on an existing service built by others. They can't even take the
credit for creating the service they now profit from.
>When the various NSFNet cooperative agreements were terminated,
>I didn't see MCI-IBM, Sprint, and the regionals (now largely
However, you DID see these other companies CREATE their
infrastructure. NSI did not do that. It took over a service that had been
running for EIGHT YEARS.
So if you insist on being a continuing apologist for NSI, Tony, try to
cover the facts better. (Sure is amazing that although you take money from
NSI, its doesn't affect your opinion of them but that you just happen to
think so highly of them.)
d/
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