EDIT: Watch this video for details! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA Key quotes around 8:30 - 9:00, but t

EDIT: Watch this video for details! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds77e3aO9nA Key quotes around 8:30 - 9:00, but the whole thing is excellent. DARPA was funding all sorts of different networking and operating systems, which in those days were all incompatible. But they wanted them to cooperate, hence open source BSD and the Internet. Silicon Valley doesn't get this kind of cooperation. In stark contrast, a proven business tactic is to undermine cooperation by poisoning open standards (e.g. embrace and extend).