At 1:29 PM -0500 1/30/1997, Dr. Manion wrote:
>He himself, stated that anyone could suggest improvements for AOL.
>This is not my job. I am not getting paid to do so. That is AOL's
>responsibility.
Internal staff do make suggestions, but we are only a relatively
small groups of people. We cannot assume that we have the sum total
knowledge of the world, or even just the Internet, even if we do have
40% of the "brain trust" from IBM's T.J. Watson research center from
back when it seriously down-staffed (they have more patents on file
than even Lucent Technologies, which used to be AT&T Bell Labs).
So, we came up with this idea that we would let *anyone* in the
world who thinks they have a good idea submit it to us for
consideration as something we could do to help improve the Internet
at a whole. I think we're pretty unique in that respect -- I don't
know of anyone else in the world running such a project.
Of course, a lot of the things we do help both ourselves and the
Internet as a whole. I would expect that to be the case, since by
definition, we are a part of the Internet, and are the largest single
part of it. That's just simple math.
>I believe that you missed the point. This is my experience. Your
>experience may differ. However, my experience is that AOL has not
>provided any benefit to the Internet as a whole. This is my opinion.
Everyone is certainly entitled to their opinion. No doubt about
that. However, although I certainly disagree with certain marketing
moves and/or their timing, I believe it behooves everyone to have as
much facts from both sides of the issue before we start making public
position statements, especially strong ones.
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