He wrote legislation that expanded federal funding for large-scale IT projects. (He also wrote thank you letters to those teams. I still have a photocopy in a box somewhere.)
Your web browser is probably free today in large part because Netscape had to compete with a tool built under a National Science Foundation grant. They sold Navigator in boxes in stores but they were free on the internet (chicken and egg problem that could be easily solved by the internet savvy and anyone they were friends with). Every web browser since copied the previous generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Performance_Computing_Act...
He wrote legislation that expanded federal funding for large-scale IT projects. (He also wrote thank you letters to those teams. I still have a photocopy in a box somewhere.)
Your web browser is probably free today in large part because Netscape had to compete with a tool built under a National Science Foundation grant. They sold Navigator in boxes in stores but they were free on the internet (chicken and egg problem that could be easily solved by the internet savvy and anyone they were friends with). Every web browser since copied the previous generation.