[ih] FYI - Gordon Crovitz/WSJ on "Who Really Invented the Internet?"

[paul at redbarn.org (Paul Vixie)]

On 2012-07-25 4:05 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> An extensive consideration of this is contained in:
>
>    Fumbling the Future
>    by Smith & Alexander
>
> It's a cautionary tale about the role of middle-management in the
> success or failure or corporate change.
>
> When I started a lab at DEC, I was given a copy by Bob Taylor, who is
> thought to have been the deep throat source for the book and who was
> then running DEC's SRC lab.  He later asked me what I thought of the
> book and I said that it seemed possible it would apply to DEC.  As
> events unfolded, it did.

+1.