Bureaucracy is certainly not new, as WalterBright and others have observed. When Xerox was first trying to commercialize PARC inventions, it was estimated that

Bureaucracy is certainly not new, as WalterBright and others have observed. When Xerox was first trying to commercialize PARC inventions, it was estimated that IBM's bureaucracy was so bad that it would take them nine months to ship an empty box.