Patagonia founder gives away the company

Re:Patagonia founder gives away the company by sophacles on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @05:43PM (#32843807)

Funny you say this on the internet, an innovative (at the time, now it's just taken for granted) communications network funded by the US government for it's first decade. On that network you are using a technology (http/html) that was inveted at CERN (a large government funded research institute) in Europe.

These two things together have widely been credited with changing the world.

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Re:Patagonia founder gives away the company by isleyaardvark on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @06:23PM (#32844236)

I couldn't help thinking about the space race, myself. That was a puzzling assertion.

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Re:Patagonia founder gives away the company by prottog on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:47PM (#32845563)

Inventing a technology and building a profitable business on top of it are very different things that require very different skill-sets. Besides, there is no evidence to suggest that private money cannot fund basic research of the type that the government does.

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Re:Patagonia founder gives away the company by PuppyTailWags on Thursday September 15, 2022 @12:41AM (#32847130)

> there is no evidence to suggest that private money cannot fund basic research of the type that the government does.

The evidence is that it doesn't. Pharma companies rake in the money a ton but they're not the ones discovering new drugs, they're just the ones who ferry it to market.

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Re:Patagonia founder gives away the company by LunaSea on Thursday September 15, 2022 @04:42AM (#32848993)

Current machine learning state of the art would like to disagree.

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