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An Interview With The Router Man
Angry_Admin writes "For Network World's 20th anniversary, they've published an interview with William (Bill) Yeager, the creator of the multiprotocol router, with some history on how Cisco came to be. As he says in the interview : 'This project started for me in January of 1980, when essentially the boss said, "You're our networking guy. Go do something to connect the computer science department, medical center and department of electrical engineering."' 6 months later he had his first working 3MBit router shoved in a closet."
Pardon me for not meeting your exacting standards. Not everyone here cares for that much detail. Mention SONET in a sentence and a good deal of people will think you spelled sonnet wrong.
I don't get it.
because they swiped someone else's code, and took credit for something that wasn't theirs.
Every day, we hear tripe about how "for businesses to succeed", we need strong IP laws to encourage them: but time and time again, we find out that the real innovation happens outside corporations: in universities and startups, and then the sharks in the suits swoop in, lie about what they have and what it can do, lie to the public and the shareholders, and claim to have been the "innovative" ones, and that the "hand of the market" is responsible for their success.
In this case, we have evidence of yet another company that succeeded through underhanded tactics, and yet has trumpeted to the stars just how "innovative" they were. And yet again, their "innovation" was the result of a lie.
IP laws don't work; they don't reward the innovator; and they're a bad idea; because you can't get around a basic law of business -- people who spend their lives trying to find underhanded ways to screw you over will probably succeed unless you work just as hard to stop them; and the people who are focused on doing good, honest work are too busy trying to get stuff done to notice the sneaky corporate weasles that are up to no good and out to steal their work.
Clarification for the moderators out that that dont understand modern ebonics. I was refering to this guy as a friggin' genious. I know enough to know that this guy has some sweet skills, and surely deserves some credit. A true hacker guru.