Counterpoint is that they picked one thing (laser printing) out of the dozens of ideas coming out of PARC and capitalized on it to the point that they were foun

Counterpoint is that they picked one thing (laser printing) out of the dozens of ideas coming out of PARC and capitalized on it to the point that they were found to be a monopoly [0] and forced to license their patents [1]. Watch Alan Kay's "How to Invent The Future" talks from Stanford about this [2] and he talks in more depth. I don't think any company could have built products around all of the ideas that came out of there and been successful, they would have been focused on too many things. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/11/archives/jury-finds-monopoly-by-xerox-but-verdict-may-reduce-scms-damage.html https://www.nytimes.com/1978/07/11/archives/jury-finds-monop... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/31/archives/xerox-settlement-is-approved-by-ftc.html https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/31/archives/xerox-settlement... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8VZlPBx_0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8VZlPBx_0