At a certain scale, hiring people to do nothing starts to make sense as an investment for an IT company. Microsoft Research is a classic example - some of the

At a certain scale, hiring people to do nothing starts to make sense as an investment for an IT company. Microsoft Research is a classic example - some of the smartest people in the world are being paid big salaries to do nothing much of anything at all. But then imagine what those same people could do had they worked at a startup or doing open source...