In the earliest days this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.
At some point you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And...
If we had had the right technology back then you would have seen Eva Braun...
A mere forty years ago beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it and that's what freedom is all about.