I'd venture to say that academics being paid by the DoD are still part of the military complex. Oppenheimer was an academic for instance.
- William On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:58 AM, William J. Robbins <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Not that I disagree with the intent of the article, nor need to reform. >> However "This is not the internet the world needs, or t*he internet its >> creators envisioned*." is an odd statement. >> >> I do feel obliged to point out the Internet originated as a DARPA >> project: http://www.darpa.mil/About/History/History.aspx >> > > The folks who actually *built* it were academics, not defense, and had a > different vision from the folks who paid for its development. Yes, this may > have some odd effects on the whole thing. > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net >
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