"another French effort to centralize and bureaucratize technological innovation."

Not that the U.S. military-industrial complex doesn't do the same thing exactly.

Where do you think this "Internet" thing came from?

Skip the mindless Royal Libertarian rhetoric please, just give us the facts, we can see for ourselves that there are drawbacks to this approach. There are also advantages, like no obviously ecologically devastating projects to replace the cyanophyte photosynthesis chain will be funded. Unlike Texas which seems to be a whole state devoted only to chemosynthesis and lying about it.