Subject: Re: Harvard 2nd International Conference on Internet & Society
Mary G Jones (mgjones@cqi.com)
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:36:50 -0400
Message-Id: <199805282239.SAA09908@raptor.cqi.com> From: "Mary G Jones" <mgjones@cqi.com> To: <roundtable@cni.org> Subject: Re: Harvard 2nd International Conference on Internet & Society Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 19:36:50 -0400
Thanks Curtiss for your thoughts on the Harvard conference. I couldn't
agree more with your reactions. One does always hope against hope that
people can be rational. but alas that's not the way the world or most
of it works. I guess.
Regards, Mary
Mary G. Jones
<mgjones@cqi.com>
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> From: Curtiss Priest <bmslib@mitvma.mit.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org>
> Subject: Harvard 2nd International Conference on Internet & Society
> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 10:17 PM
>
>
> Archive: Harvard 2nd International Conference on Internet & Society
>
> W. Curtiss Priest, Ph.D.
> Center for Information, Technology & Society
> 466 Pleasant Street
> Melrose, MA 02176
> Internet: bmslib@mitvma.mit.edu, Voice: 617-662-4044, FAX: 617-662-6882
>
> This document may be distributed freely
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> May 27, 1997
>
> An Open Discussion
> with Government, Foundations, Non-profits
> and Grassroots Efforts
>
>
> Were it not for a $1300 scholarship from Harvard, I would probably not
> have afforded this conference.
>
> And, I must thank my benefactors, as benefactors are hard to find.
>
> Yet, I was left after today's session with a tremendous despair about
> the inability of Kim B. Clark, Dean of the Harvard Business School and
> Prof. H. T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science
> and Electrical Engineering, to ask any question of Steve Ballmer,
> (Executive Vice President of Microsoft, a graduate of Harvard, and a
> current overseer to the University) which didn't permit him to say
> to the "world" that of course Microsoft will carry on the sword of
> innovation despite their monopolistic dominance of the PC industry.
>
> Should this surprise me?
>
> Well, yes and no. While having been a member of that "down river"
> Instutute called MIT and having been only too well aware of the
> "old boys club" that Harvard represents, I guess I could have
> expected no more.
>
> But, having been an admirer of Prof. Clark and various others in the
> Harvard Business School -- especially Prof. Abernathy who provided
> a great deal of wisdom about the process of technological innovation,
> I did hope (against hope) that they would rise above the allegiances
> and take Ballmer on to be the "street bully" that I judge he is.
>
> That they let him get away with oblique, self-serving answers which
> finally culminated in Bullmer's pronouncement that Microsoft's
> practices will be vindicated in the Justice Department's antitrust
> suit, just left one with a very sickening feeling that Harvard ties
> are thicker than blood.
>
> --
>
>
> W. Curtiss Priest, Director, CITS
> Center for Information, Technology & Society
> 466 Pleasant St., Melrose, MA 02176
> Voice: 781-662-4044 BMSLIB@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Fax: 781-662-6882 WWW: http://www.eff.org/pub/Groups/CITS
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