My final words on this:<br><br>1. The first commercially available browser was NCSA Mosaic - Federally funded program invented by students at UoI amongst whom were Marc Andreesen - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreesen">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreesen</a> <br>
2. Marc went on to develop Netscape from publicly available libraries he had previously invented in his UoI days<br>3. MS came along and requested the same libraries from the Uoi and gotthem and hence the birth of IE<br>
4. The group that worked on Netscape went on to continue their work on Mozilla as public service.nence firefox - <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/">http://www.mozilla.org/</a> <br><br>Hence the birth of all the major commercial browsers are funded by the Fed.<br>
<br>About Google - for those who know these matters - Google was a PhD work out of Standard (not USC as I earlier stated) that was fed funded in the department of Maths in Stanford - a collaboration between an American and a Russian students <br>
<br>The US State Department may tout the power of the entrepreneur but every major investment that has produced value for the most masses has been funded by governments in this case The US Fed.<br><br>And need I also add that the Internet infrastructure has been developed by the same US Fed and handed over to universities to manage, This was historically been for military communications purposes<br>
<br>Need I say more<br><br>To enjoin Robert, I think the Central Government in Kenya has a central role to play in developing the infrastructure necessary for development. Listening to theories coming out of Washington DC(IMF, WB, USG) and closing our eyes to the plight of our people is tantamount to shooting ourselves.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:25 AM, McTim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dogwallah@gmail.com">dogwallah@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Joseph Manthi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmanthi@gmail.com" target="_blank">jmanthi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
McTim<br>Just to clarify. All education funding for student scholarship is a federal funding including all activities in private colleges.</blockquote></div><div><br><br>That is not at all the case. While many loans and scholarships schemes are made available by the USG, it is nowehre near 100%.<br>
</div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I am not sure about facebook but google and netscape were funded with Federal govt funds</blockquote>
</div><div><br>Can you supply some facts to back this up? If both Google and FB, which are worth Billions of USD were developed using USG funds, don't you think we would have heard that the USG is claiming an ownership stake? There would be well publicized lawsuits at a minimum!<br>
<br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> and the law governing such things are very clear. Anywork undertaken in the universities in the US and patents issued, those patent are owned by the university, the source of the grant (in this case the fed) and the scientist,<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br><br>I've never heard any indications that either Google or FB were developed with US grant monies.<br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>But without belaboring the point, I would like to clarify the following, if it was not for the US fed government you and I and our good friend Robert would not be besieching Dr Ndemo to use the power vested in him and solve the apparent problem of local hosting<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br>I will agree with you there! <br></div></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">-- <br>Cheers,<br><br>McTim<br>"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel<br>
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