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Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by mempko on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @03:36AM (#37911729)
It's ironic he talks about markets yet Netscape came from Mosaic, developed at a public university (Urbana-Champaign in Illinois) without market forces. HTML and HTTP developed at CERN, another public institution.
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Re:The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by ethanbond on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @10:05AM (#37915250)
In the usual pattern, there's something mysterious and totally unexplainable happening where all the systems have broken down somewhere between when Person X was a beneficiary of the system and when Person X is expected to be a benefactor to the system.
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