Mother of Internet Speaks Out

Anonymous Coward writes to tell us that Radia Perlman, sometimes called the "Mother of the Internet" for her invention of the spanning tree algorithm used by bridges and switches, recently gave a very candid interview with NetworkWorld. From the interview: "The taste of whoever is in the funding agencies tends to cause everyone to look at the same stuff at the same time. Often technologies get hot then go away. There was active networking for a while, which always mystified me and has now died. In security the money is behind digital rights management, which I think ultimately is a bad thing -- not that we need to preserve the right to pirate music, but because the solutions are things that don't solve the real problems in terms of security."

Mother of the Internet?

[parasonic]

I thought that Tipper Gore is the Mother of the Internet...

Re:Rhea Perlman?

[cei]

No, no, Rhea Perlman is the mother of Danny DeVito's children. Danny DeVito's children are not the internet. It's easy to mistake the two though.

That explains it!

[Rob T Firefly]

Rhea Perlman is the Mother of the Internet?

No wonder the Internet is constantly cranky, yet lovable.

Jewish mother?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does this mean the net is jewish?? ;-)

Re:That explains it!

[cei]

and kinda short.