<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="">Conventional wisdom depend on anecdote for its propagation. A number of pieces of serious research have been cited on this thread, however.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 12:36 PM, Noel Chiappa <<a href="mailto:jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu" class="">jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">From: Richard Bennett <<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Organizations such as Bell Labs and IBM Research pretty much put a<br class="">dagger in the heart of 'big companies don't innovate'<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Bell's a bad example, because it was a regulated monopoly; I gather things<br class="">changed a lot after AT+T split up.<br class=""><br class="">There are plenty of older examples people aren't bringing up, though, such as<br class="">the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable.<br class=""><br class="">Still, I think this whole debate is a perfect example of 'the plural of<br class="">"anecdote" isn't "data"'.<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> Noel<br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><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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