At 12:40 PM -0700 4/26/97, Karl Denninger wrote:
For 90% of that database, the development and operation was paid for with *private funds* as a *private, for-profit, revenue-funded* business.
under a government agreement, with a government assignment of responsibility and government review and approval of the fees. the agreement, by the way, says that the data belong to the government.
NSI put up the risk capital to do this. They did so with no guarantee of a profit, and in fact claim they have lost money.
no, really they didn't, since the captial came from the revenue stream.
I believe that if push comes to shove, this will be supported through legal process.
and I believe they won't. ain't it great to have all these free legal opinions floating around?
This is what I've been saying for 18 months, but nobody wanted to hear it then because it was politically unpalatable.
or, perhaps, because your legal opinions are even less than mine, and that's going some. d/ -------------------- Dave Crocker +1 408 246 8253 Brandenburg Consulting fax: +1 408 249 6205 675 Spruce Dr. dcrocker@brandenburg.com Sunnyvale CA 94086 USA http://www.brandenburg.com Internet Mail Consortium http://www.imc.org, info@imc.org