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To: combjelly who wrote (544720)	1/18/2010 4:47:53 PM
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To: combjelly who wrote (544720)	1/18/2010 5:30:47 PM
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>> Without its involvement, the industry would have grown a lot slower. While there are undoubtedly examples where this is true, IC's isn't one of them. By "a lot slower", I'm not sure what time frame you're talking about but we would have been FLOODED with consumer products with ICs within roughly the same time frame, with or without government involvement. To suggest that, for example, there would have been a substantial delay in the development of Texas Instruments and HP calculators had the government not been an early consumer of chips is a flawed statement and there is no evidence nor is there any rationale that would support such a claim. But ICs were the result of years of basic research that was primarily funded by the government. Nobody is talking about basic research. We're talking about the government forking over taxpayer dollars as rebates to encourage a market to develop. A totally different, unrelated subject. I have not the slightest problem with basic research and obviously don't believe that it has to be totally funded by private industry. But I DO have a problem -- and every thinking human should -- with the government trying to create a market where none exists.