The X Prize is stupid

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:50:24 -0500, in a place far, far away, Phil
Fraering pgf@AUTO made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
as to indicate that:

(Rand Simberg) writes:

Unless you can show that they spent their own money on it, I don't
consider it a nitpick.

The only reference I saw indicated that the F-5E received government
funding, but implied that the other two versions (the original F-5,
and the F-20) didn't.

For that matter, the government was somewhat hostile to the F-20.

Yes, actually, now that I think of it, they did spend their own money
on the F-20, and then the government made sure that they couldn't sell
any, to anyone. They'll never make that mistake again...

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