<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Organizations such as Bell Labs and IBM Research pretty much put a dagger in the heart of “big companies don’t innovate” conventional wisdom all by themselves. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc2@dcrocker.net" class="">dhc2@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 7/4/2018 12:16 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">You mean the guy who copied Unix, a creation of America’s 11th largest <br class="">company at the time?<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">and yet, the specifics of who did what and with what, then, describes a <br class="">classic garage activity.<br class=""><br class="">the only difference worth noting is that the big company was paying <br class="">their salaries. in terms of critical components to the event, that <br class="">point doesn't impress me.<br class=""><br class="">d/<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Dave Crocker<br class="">Brandenburg InternetWorking<br class=""><a href="http://bbiw.net" class="">bbiw.net</a><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class="">internet-history@postel.org<br class="">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history<br class="">Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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