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Ah yes fair point! the original post I responded to referred to In-Q-Tel, and the link I posted goes into far more depth about the myriad of private-public ventures including In-Q-Tel. In-Q-Tel is owned by the CIA (In this article they mention that no one has as of yet looked into the legality of a US Govt agency owning a private company, it's beyond me TBH) In-Q-Tel is one of the founding members of IBM Eclipse Foundation
From the link
Fig. 51—Google was a early creation of The IBM Eclipse Foundation. Google went public on Aug. 18, 2004. IBM sold its famed PC Group to Lenovo (China) a three months later on Dec. 8, 2004, the same day The Eclipse Foundation claimed in internal documents they were "unable to locate" the original source of their source code (Leader Technologies, Columbus, Ohio), even though Leader's patent attorney, James P. Chandler, III was also IBM's chief outside counsel. For those who may not know (most of us), "Android" or the Android OS operating system for many mobile devices is merely IBM Eclipse by another name. Eclipse is the progenitor of Google Android.