Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops

Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by Tool_of_Society on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:03PM (#38540060)

Indeed according to the big private businesses at the time the internet was stupid and a money losing idea.

It's a common thing in American history where the US government invests in ideas/concepts that are seen as losers by the for profit industry only for those industries to swoop in and profit off the results...

Stuff like that and the American national standards institute is why the USA was in the front of the technological evolution for so long. We spent money on "useless" crap that ended up paying massive dividends later and allowed for the USA to set the standards.

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Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by robertlagrant on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @03:26AM (#38541631)

This massively obscures all the Incredible efforts by those companies over the decades to bring us from unreliable, insecure, hyper slow, wired proof of concept to something so valuable everyone will pay for it.

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Re:Polish trains lock up when serviced in third-party workshops by albert180 on Saturday December 09, 2023 @02:23AM (#38579503)

Just take the L man. That's the case for every technology after it was invented

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