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RE: BBN Peering issues


From: "Martin, Christian" <CMartin () mercury balink com>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:13:57 -0400

You play engineering and revenue as a dichotomy when in fact
it is a duality.  In the "real world" that you like to refer
to, it is more of a symbiotic relationship.  Though it would
be nice to be aloof in a lab and be lavishly compensated, I would 
venture to say that such a situation is not the norm.   

Let us get one point understood.  You deserve nothing more than
you pay for.  You were not, by merit of your diction, infrastructure,
prowess, or mandate from heaven, conferred a right to the
resources of another individual or conglomeration of individuals.

If you abhor these paper-pushers so, you are more than able to 
find the capitalisation to finance a global altruistic
network where anyone can peer with anyone and we will all get along.
It will be akin to the communes of the 60s.  We can just
hallucinate until the reality evaporates.  

BR

"Well said, well spoken."

-Irwin Fletcher (AKA Fletch (AKA Chevy Chase))




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