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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by cnity on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:52AM (#25359027)
> That's what the web is today

Are you suggesting that the web is the way it is today because benevolent governments dictated it be so? Do you have any links about this?

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Re:An Economy of Godzillas: Salesforce, Slack, and Microsoft by jonfw on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @02:10PM (#25362942)
My impression is that most of the open standards upon which the web is based such as HTML, HTTP, IP, etc. are mostly government funded either through academia, CERN, military, etc.

Things are a little different now that private industry is funding most of this stuff

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