>In France, initiatives are very often top-down - bureaucrats invent a project and try to rally organizations. Even when it works, it’s almost alway useless I

>In France, initiatives are very often top-down - bureaucrats invent a project and try to rally organizations. Even when it works, it’s almost alway useless If you do this in the us you get Shockley -> Fairchild -> Intel OR Engineering Research Associates/Univac -> Control Data Corporation -> Cray Research If you put a bunch of smart people together, and manage them like shit, they will go start their own company in the US.