Они не взлетели не в конце 90x, а в начале 00x. В 98м из выгнали из Стенфорда, в сентябре получают 100k для гаражного проекта, а в июне 99г - 25 млн и нанимают 150 человек, в том числе 20 PhD.
Зачем нужны эти доктора гениальным программистам? Есть серьезное подозрение, что деньги и люди пришли из компетентных органов. Возглавить строительство Большого Брата. Весьма успешное, кстати.
=== cut === An ex-CIA agent has gone further than ever before in detailing Google's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming sources told him that CIA seed money helped get the company off the ground and naming for the first time Google's CIA point man.
Robert David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, is the CEO of OSS.net. ... "I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities === cut ===
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Date: 2012-08-06 05:03 am (UTC)Они не взлетели не в конце 90x, а в начале 00x.
В 98м из выгнали из Стенфорда, в сентябре получают 100k для гаражного проекта, а в июне 99г - 25 млн и нанимают 150 человек, в том числе 20 PhD.
Зачем нужны эти доктора гениальным программистам?
Есть серьезное подозрение, что деньги и люди пришли из компетентных органов.
Возглавить строительство Большого Брата. Весьма успешное, кстати.
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An ex-CIA agent has gone further than ever before in detailing Google's relationship with the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming sources told him that CIA seed money helped get the company off the ground and naming for the first time Google's CIA point man.
Robert David Steele, a 20-year Marine Corps infantry and intelligence officer and a former clandestine services case officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, is the CEO of OSS.net.
...
"I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities
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