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And Netscape, Microsoft, Apple and Google.... why do you think it would not have happened in the absence of a bloated government?
by sunshinerag 13y ago
And Netscape, Microsoft, Apple and Google.... why do you think it would not have happened in the absence of a bloated government?
- acdha 13y agoYou keep making the mistake of assuming that government only comes in one type. My point was that there are good and bad outcomes on both sides of the public / private line (not to mentioned grey areas like DARPA) and using simplistic terminology prevents you from participating in the conversation about how to use the strengths of both. Phrases like "bloated government" are intellectual junk food — not to mention amusingly blinkered in a list including Microsoft or Netscspe. Your choice in examples underscores the point: all of those companies have profited enormously by taking technology which was developed elsewhere, often on government grants at universities, and successfully commercializing it. None of them have in their combined histories funded even a fraction of what NSF / DARPA / etc. funds every year because the business model for a public company isn't really compatible with funding speculative research without a proven path to market.