Gregory's ServerCurrently slightly torn between gloating over (not nearly enough) karma payback for @nlnet, sympathy for the affected projects, and observing that the pecunia non olet approach to financing OSS projects might not be quite as sustainable as some people thought. https://kolektiva.social/@hackstub/112762068812732277
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 @simon @nlnet That sounds very much like the first Framework Programme, at least timewise. I was rapporteur for one of the streams (basic software, parallel computing) at an early workshop held at Woluve-Saint-Lambert Town Hall, chosen, I think, for reliability. There were massive turf wars both in DG-XIII and in the industry panels (still the twelve at the time). At some point I had to say that I would be unable to put my name to the report after it had been edited within DG-XIII. @SK53 Piets mini auto-biography is probably the least dry treatment on the topic https://godfatherof.nl/ specifically https://godfatherof.nl/WPA.html on the COSINE/Eureka angle. http://ictconsulting.ch/reports/European-Research-Internet-History.pdf goes in to a lot more details though. @SK53 in the end it did have the consequence of wiping out large bits of the European telecoms hardware industry outside of those working on mobile stuff. @simon I'd forgotten about EUREKA, but was only very tangentially involved via the Home Automation project. I was v much ESPRIT. At a mundane project level we hooked directly to UCL, but domain name admin was done, badly, by Uni. Kent. A friend & colleague moved to IBM Networking Centre in Heidelberg early '90s. Always understood his role was to disrupt standardisation (which I knew very well IBM & DEC were doing with FORTRAN-8X). Interested no mention of RACE. 1/2 @simon My brother was much more on the networking scene, initially writing X.25 software at MDIS, and then ATM firmware for Netcomm (sold to General Data Corp) a key supplier to Janet-2. He left them in '95, but then spent about 10 years contracting with just about every player in ATM. But he had no awareness of EC politics. British DTI specialised in being utterly inept in them. I had far more support from the Irish ministry, and lots of hassle 'cos of 🇩🇰 & 🇪🇸 firms and their national reps. 2/2 |
The EU moving funds to silly stuff for industry policy reasons actually has a ~35 year old tie in to the @nlnet angle of this BTW.