Comment by fragmede
4 months ago
Ah yes, companies like UCLA + MIT (TCP), USC/ISI (DNS, Email/RFC 822), CERN (HTTP, World Wide Web), UC Berkeley (Unix sockets / BSD networking stack). IETF (BGP,TLS), University of Delaware (NTP), MIT/CSAIL/W3C (HTML, CSS, Ethernet).
Do you mind removing all the work done that was sponsored by companies before I proceed with a response on what's left?
What kind of person sees a claim like "No, not all major breakthroughs were done at private companies. Like the internet, for example" and immediately feels the need to tell them private companies are doing stuff?
Are you not reading the reply chains before commenting? What motivates you to interject with information that is meaningless?
The only thing I can think of is that you've voted for the people who are currently slashing the funding and have to continuously try to convince yourself it's okay.
Lots of the internet was and is powered by research from private companies. The internet is not particularly public sector.
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