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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (12868)	7/22/1999 8:13:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 29970

OT None of today's parties walks away from this Dr. Frankenstein-like pursuit without having contributed in their own way to the unraveling of a purer form of open, for they are all engaging in what the original I-SOCiety had been worried about and fretting, with due cause, for many years. And that is nothing short of the ultimate commercialization of the 'net, itself Not being a member of the original internet society I personally dont see anything wrong with the commercialization of the internet. Face it, the opportunity to earn money drives people to create things they never would have had the motivation to otherwise. There is nothing wrong with greed as a driving force. Nothing wrong that is until greed starts to hide its face pretending to be a noble cause and in the process perverting the essense of that cause. OpenNet acting out of purest competetive greed has in my eyes forever damaged the true spirit of "open" on the internet. Maybe in essense that was what the initial internet society feared, the subtle perversion of their freedom for the purpose of profit. Eric PS One good thing I have noticed lately is that every news report I see finally realizes that what "open" means is government regulation.