In
<cae1xxdher2jjpx0cyzr+ku8g-6afdj7n4q13ww7g+jbe-hx...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 07/24/2012
at 04:09 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
>The scientific community made early and significant use of the
>DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none of the
>problems that afflict us today emerged during that period. There
>was no money to be made by chicanery, and little of it therefore
>occurred.
The reason that there was no money to be made was that ARPA and later
NSF would cut you off at the knees if you tried.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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