> Government had nothing to do with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg Gates and Jobs built their companies on the microprocessor, the development of which was

> Government had nothing to do with Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg Gates and Jobs built their companies on the microprocessor, the development of which was completely dependent upon government contacts to Fairchild. Zuckerberg's debt is even more so - the Internet was a government funded R&D project from 1969 until the 1991 entry of ANS/CIX. He built his business on top of a 20+ year government project, just like Google and other businesses did. To say that the government had nothing to do with it is absurd, and just highlighting Gordon's own ignorance of how technology, and for that matter the economy, works. Just looking at the official government forms, tens of billions in military contracts have come into the Peninsula over the past decade ( http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/california_counties.asp http://www.governmentcontractswon.com/department/defense/cal... ). That doesn't even cover all military spending, and it does not cover non-militray government spending.