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Ananyo Bhattacharya — John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (EP.151)
Infinite Loops
Is Von Neumann the Father of Open Source?
The internet runs on open source software and it caused Steve Ballmer at Microsoft to say that was communist because he had a direct competitor yeah dog in the hunt there. von Neumann is in fact the one who has placed himself at this incredible nexus so he manages to convince the military of the importance of the project they've kicked in earlier which is I suppose or warning to people who are very keen on open source so you will be overtaken. He gets these highly strong engineers to work together now goal scene is not an easy person to work for and their chief engineer is also a crazy guy who practically replaces every other part and just keeps it running along rather by a new car.
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