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Mother of Internet Speaks Out
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."
Who the hell modded this guy insightful when he can't even tell the difference between male or female? OP is a horse! Gimme +5!
Apparently not.
Do we take an otherwise unqualified person's thoughts on random subjects seriously because they invented something one time.
Stallman is one of these people. He wrote a compiler and a text editor many years ago, yet still gets so much publicity and people take his thoughts as gospel. Another person in this category is Paul Graham.