[jmsdnns]

Where did TCP/IP come from? It's on every computer.

[xpe]

Is this substantive engagement with the earlier comment? I’m not seeing it. You probably know the examples are different (long term R&D on a telecom protocol followed by government implementation and standards and industry adoption … versus fairly early-days access to a GenAI model tuned for defense contexts).

[ajross]

Generally a notable counter-example to a broad-brush point stands as "substantive engagement", yeah. Stating that the Pentagon buys software badly in the general case is a less specific and less engaged point than "ARPANET and IPv4 were DoD projects that ate the world".

If you want to argue that the examples are different, that's an extra point you need to bring to the table. You're not allowed to assume everyone just agrees with you.

[willcipriano]

That was 51 years ago at about a trillion spent a year since. Have any examples from the 21st century? Keep in mind they also essentially lost every war they fought during that time as well.

[chgs]

Nobody was given a contract to generate tcp/ip. And the protocol itself was mostly meaningless for decades.

[segfaultex]

Is your implication that MSFT will bundle the tool in their windows dist?

I wonder how that will work with the networking reqs the DoD has. Probably some direct link to a gov VPC I suppose.