> I know Google has X-labs or whatever, but I don't really know about the politics behind it or how free their engineers are allowed to be. i think one of the

> I know Google has X-labs or whatever, but I don't really know about the politics behind it or how free their engineers are allowed to be. i think one of the echoes from this idea at google is the "20% of your time you work on a project of your choice" not sure if there is anything else at google like that.