Allam did take away deep insights into wireless technology, aiming to build gear for low-cost local networks by using industry standards instead of the homegrown algorithms Metricom used.
At the age of 27 he had the temerity to criticize George Washington at a dinner party for looking to Scotland for a tutor for his step-grandchildren instead of finding a homegrown scholar.
But, of course, for Democrats, It does not matter that the long and sordid history of Democratic plantation-style paternalism - from Jim Crow to the welfare state - has not only failed black communities, but kept them dependent on Democratic party elites for morsels of beneficence, instead of on their prodigious homegrown wits and resources.
But the key to unlocking profits from the torrent of homegrown online videos may instead be in the hands of a small British video search company called Blinkx.
Instead of paying salaries that would attract homegrown nurses, American hospitals recruit in the Caribbean, the Philippines, India and Africa.
But the film declines to mark a clear boundary between dream and reality; instead it unfurls a series of overlapping, enigmatic stories into a quilt of homegrown surrealism and soft-focus spirituality.
At the time, I poked around to see the Chinese reaction and was amused to discover that instead of irritating people, it was, in fact, being misunderstood by more than a few Chinese viewers as a work of homegrown propaganda.
In Manitoba, anti-drug units of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police now inspect massive hemp fields for legal compliance, instead of raiding them all part of a $1 billion homegrown industry that's experiencing rapid growth.
Instead, the homegrown rich keep their money in real estate and gold, which does not require the services of polished bankers of the sort that cater to the rich in places like London, New York, Singapore and Zurich.
Only a handful of homegrown firms can say as much.
