{"by":"sarvesh","id":647540,"kids":[647557,647844],"parent":647502,"text":"Whenever the idea of government getting involved with startups or silicon valley comes up it makes me sick to my stomach. Picking the right startups, open source or otherwise is a hard thing to do and especially for the government. They have done that in the past, the government trying to fund the semiconductor industry in the 90s, and failed remarkably. I wish they learnt from their mistakes but alas seems like they don't.<p>As far as your idea of funding open source only projects, that already happens in universities. Most of the good open source project you probably use comes from these universities that get federal funding.","time":1244478686,"type":"comment"}