Re: The Phoenix has landed!

"Robert J. Kolker" <bobkolker@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Paul J Gans wrote:



Example: the internet was totally developed with government
grants and contracts. Once the bugs were worked out, private
entrepreneurs were allowed to take it over almost cost free.

It was paid for, partially out of taxes exacted from business.

When the government had the internet (invented by Bolt Baranak and Newman,
a private corporation) it was good for sending e-mail and maintaining BBs.
And that is all. It was Tim Berners Lee who invented the Web that made the
internet the useful thing that it is. Tim invented the Web in his spare
time when he was working for CERN. Sort of like Albert Einstein inventing
the theory of relativity during his quiet time at the Swiss Patent Office.

Bob Kolker


No. Tim Berners-Lee devised some protocols for exchanging information for
particle physicists mainly, and it was done on CERN time, not in his spare
time. Among these were the development of http and the idea of www. Tim
was paid entirely from taxpayer funding of the project. None of his
resources were from private sources.

Because of the way these intellectual properties were developed and
distributed, they were in public domain, hence exploitable by private
companies.

Don't you remember the book by Bill Gates in the mid-90s "The Road Ahead" in
which the word internet (and the concept) were not even mentioned? It took
time to get the idea across to businesses.

--
Mike Dworetsky

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