North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Shutdown of lists on May 30th at 12:01 AM
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Vince Wolodkin wrote: > It's time you faced it, though you and others may have put a great deal > of work into building what the internet has become, so have many > others. It doesn't mean that it belongs to you. It doesn't mean that > people who are trying to build something now are pirates. No. It means that people who try to take a public resource and make it a private cash cow ARE pirates. I challenge you to show one email, any email (or any other verifiable piece of info) anywhere in which Paul has claimed to own the net. > even be a little bit afraid that some of them might succeed. But why is > their input LESS valuable than yours, and who are you to make this > judgement? He isn't. The Internet community is, and that community probably values Paul's input because of his track record and his demonstrable talent and insight into issues :) > Take a good look in the mirror and decide, do you want to work with > others or do you want to dictate to others? Then please let us know, we > may need to ignore you in the future. Ignore whomever you choose to ignore. I think you'll find that Paul (and others, certainly) are concerned with working inside a framework which is most beneficial to the Internet community at large. DNS pirates like the eDNS/uDNS/AlterNIC crowd are not, thay're interested in producing a perception of power and a stream of revenue for themselves. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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