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Bell Labs was pretty explicit about this being the reason they existed. It was also the reason they filed patents. Like the answering machine patent: to preve
by KirillPanov 6y ago
Bell Labs was pretty explicit about this being the reason they existed.
It was also the reason they filed patents. Like the answering machine patent: to prevent it from existing (commercially) for as long as possible.
- ryandrake 6y agoI'm almost convinced many huge tech companies have massive staff simply to keep everyone else from hiring them. They do these "senior software engineer retention programs" paying employees to stay busy on insignificant projects. If none of the smart people are working for scrappy startups, nobody is going to invent something that disrupts the industry.