Comment on Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"Comments−marksaccucci13yI think all companies should encourage this. When I read this, Bell Labs comes to mind. Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation and I think all companies should take note!−jacques_chester13y> Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovationGovernment-guaranteed monopoly profits?Harder to achieve than it looks.−chimeracoder13y> Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?They also were forbidden from profiting from a large portion of the work that they did....If that weren't the case, we wouldn't have GNU.−1SaltwaterC13yWe wouldn't have OS X as it is today either.
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I think all companies should encourage this. When I read this, Bell Labs comes to mind. Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation and I think all companies should take note!
> Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation
Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?
Harder to achieve than it looks.
> Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?
They also were forbidden from profiting from a large portion of the work that they did....
If that weren't the case, we wouldn't have GNU.
We wouldn't have OS X as it is today either.