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Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by adventured on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @03:16AM (#15390743)
What did DARPA have a monopoly over exactly? They were and are a defense research agency.
Re:Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos? by seagullz on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:54AM (#15391490)
Late Columbia professor Seymour Melman demystified this in his book "Pentagon Capitalism" back in 1970. And, for a summary, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/PentagonSystem_Cho...

A lot of preconceptions may be in the way though in trying to understand this.