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Mother of Internet Speaks Out

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that's-a-big-baby dept.

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that Radia Perlman, sometimes called the "Mother of the Internet" for her invention of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges and switches, recently gave a very candid interview with NetworkWorld. From the interview: "The taste of whoever is in the funding agencies tends to cause everyone to look at the same stuff at the same time. Often technologies get hot then go away. There was active networking for a while, which always mystified me and has now died. In security the money is behind digital rights management, which I think ultimately is a bad thing -- not that we need to preserve the right to pirate music, but because the solutions are things that don't solve the real problems in terms of security."

3 of 114 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What a good first post by evil_roy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I should've taken much more time with this.

  2. Mother, you had me, but I never had you... by digitaldc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In security the money is behind digital rights management, which I think ultimately is a bad thing

    What is a mother to do when she realizes all her children care about is making money?

    --
    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
  3. Re:Wrong anchortext: Mother of Internet by malsdavis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But dumbing down and catering for non-nerds = more readers = more cash.