Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar...
by raverbashing on Thursday September 10, 2020 @06:11AM
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> The current big tech companies became successful and massive without any special government deals
Where did their finance came from: previous SF companies and angel investors
Where did these companies get their funding from: US government
The current companies are only the "daughters and granddaughters" of massively government funded companies in Silicon Valley
Re:Former NSA chief Keith Alexander has joined Amazon’s boar...
by Hokusai on Thursday September 10, 2020 @10:30AM
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> The current companies are only the "daughters and granddaughters" of massively government funded companies in Silicon Valley
Very good point. Many people forgets how much money the state invest, as it should, on technology and to create an industry. From ARPANET to the WWII computers (or NASA), technology needs a level of investment that only states can afford.
This is incorrect. The current big tech companies became successful and massive without any special government deals. Google dominated search, Microsoft dominated all business and home PCs for decades, Apple and Google dominated mobile for consumers and businesses, Amazon beat them all to cloud and ate online retail with free fast shipping.
It’s only recently with JEDI that Amazon/Microsoft tried to attach directly to the government’s wallet in a big way. And even with losing that, it will be a drop in the bucket for either of them.
These companies were successful because they were allowed to move quickly and beat out competitors. The entire Internet industry blossomed and gave birth to these companies before the government even took the Internet very seriously.