Re: [wg-c] Eureka?

["A.M. Rutkowski" <amr@netmagic.com>]

At 01:11 AM 8/8/99 , Javier SOLA wrote:
> P.D. A company that does not want to make a
> profit of something is called a
> "non-profit corporation". A for-profit corporation has capital
> and
> investors who expect to get a return on their investment. I very much
> doubt
> that they would put the interest of the community over their R.O.I.
> (return
> on investment).

You and like-minded cohorts obviously have strong views
and biases regarding corporations, marketplaces, economic 
systems, and preferred concepts and models.

There are another set of parties that have very different
views on those matters.  This is nothing new - the world
of telecommunication and information systems has witnessed 
these same diametrically opposed views since 1850.  As a
result, a multiple regime world existed.

The answer to this quandary has been to construct arrangements
for the both to coexist.  You will not keep a NSI 2.0, 3.0, 
N.0
from emerging - at least not ones based in the United
States.  A productive step forward here is to stop trying to
force your views down on the world and construct arrangements
that allow for this diversity.


--tony