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Bell Labs was highly regulated, a state-owned monopoly. You can read more about it in "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" from Brian Kernighan. And of course would
by brakmic 6y ago
Bell Labs was highly regulated, a state-owned monopoly. You can read more about it in "UNIX: A History and a Memoir" from Brian Kernighan.
And of course would Linus Thorvalds have created Linux without having known anything about Unix. LOL.
Regarding "innovation" in the industry: it's just another neoliberal fairy tale. An industry that doesn't risk their money in funding research (especially basic research) is neither an industry nor innovative.
We need another term for (yet another) neoliberal illusion.
- scottlocklin 6y ago> Bell Labs was highly regulated, a state-owned monopoly. I basically agree with what you're saying about neoliberalism, but Bell Labs was never a state owned monopoly, nor was it ever run like one.