[ih] Review: Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley"

[Richard Bennett]

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. 

RB

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 8:32 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net> wrote:
> 
> On 7/4/2018 12:16 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:
>> You mean the guy who copied Unix, a creation of America’s 11th largest 
>> company at the time?
>> 
> 
> and yet, the specifics of who did what and with what, then, describes a 
> classic garage activity.
> 
> the only difference worth noting is that the big company was paying 
> their salaries.  in terms of critical components to the event, that 
> point doesn't impress me.
> 
> d/
> 
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Richard Bennett
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Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator

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