A short aside for those who would complain of government interference in technology

Wednesday, June 4. 2008

A short aside for those who would complain of government interference in technology

From Marc Andreessen, commenting on the days of the early Internet in Vanity Fair:

“When Al Gore says that he created the Internet, he means that he funded these four national supercomputing centers. Federal funding was critical. I tease my libertarian friends—they all think the Internet is the greatest thing. And I’m like, Yeah, thanks to government funding.”

Exquisite

Still trying to work out What It All Means when Vanity Fair runs a 9 pager on The Internet. The Convergence clearly goes further than I thought - I look forward to the first reviews of the Paris catwalks on TechCrunch.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Open Source at 21:43 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) | Top Exits (0)

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