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IIRC Bell Labs killed their own invention, I think that's fundamentally different than the other cases.
by dantheman 15y ago
IIRC Bell Labs killed their own invention, I think that's fundamentally different than the other cases.
- iwwr 15y agoThe FCC delayed cell phone technology by at least 2 decades. AT&T delayed computer networks (pre-internet) by insisting on owning every device that connects to it, so modems had to use slow acoustic couplers.
- warfangle 15y agoTrue, it didn't fit the rest of the list. They did do a heckuva lot to keep people from competing with them - and to prevent better technologies from coming along (as otherwise mentioned, acoustic couplers. fax machines also fit in there). Bell also had a nasty habit of - when forced to compete by the government - physically sabotaging interconnect points.
- dantheman 15y agoAgreed, I was just pointing out the difference -- I was in no way defending what they did.