> Computers and the Internet started with academics. Only if one categorizes academics as a research arm of military funded research goals. Not that there is

> Computers and the Internet started with academics. Only if one categorizes academics as a research arm of military funded research goals. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but let's be intellectually honest. > UNIX is a product of a quasi-academic research lab. A wholly owned subsidiary of the commercial entity AT&T as far as the UNIX trademark is concerned. The BSD family would have something to say about Unix (note case difference) however. > The Center of Gravity shifted in the late 90s/early 2000s, I reckon. Real world needed distributed systems ... Distributed systems and the networking protocols now assumed (TCP and UDP) was a battle fought before the late 90's. See Novell[0] for an alternative many espoused at the time and Sun's "The Network is the Computer" mantra from the mid 80's. > Not saying USENIX didn’t have factions. I just question the word “capture” about academics, who invented all this stuff before there was money in it. There was always "money in it." Academic funding is, by definition, justifying the allocation of money for the advancement of knowledge often pitched as relevant to the benefactor. Again, not that there is anything wrong with this. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell