17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Sun, 17 Dec 1995, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
State funding by itself is not sufficient. If that were true, CMU -- which receives almost half its revenue from the government -- would have to behave reasonably. (It doesn't; check out http://joc.mit.edu/~joc/cmu.html)
There is some precedent for Federal funding being used to influence the behaviour of universities - most notably with anti-discrimination. I don't think federal contracts affect this particular area. Simon