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VikingCoder on July 30, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

> DARPA's commercialization track record is decidedly mixed...

If you count my number of attempts, sure.

If you count by impact, it's hard to come up with many things more impactful than the Internet...?

woodruffw on July 30, 2024 [–]

Yeah, I meant by number. But also: ARPA didn't commercialize the Internet! They explicitly refused to commercialize it; commercialization only happened after an Act of Congress induced interconnections between NSFNET and commercial networks.

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