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Old 02-05-2009, 08:47 AM   #50 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by aceventura3 View Post
How do you know?
Well, Ace, had they had the resources and power of the state, I suppose they could have done it all themselves, but i think it's safe to say that Cisco depends on technology developed with funding from the Cold War state.

In fact, computers as we know them were developed with funding from the state. It's the same for networking and computer languages -- even the browser which allowed the commercialisation of computer networks was developed in a state-funded lab.
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