> Somebody still has to do the fundamental stuff, and Google (along with Facebook) have been amazing for the ecosystem, especially open source A new golden age

> Somebody still has to do the fundamental stuff, and Google (along with Facebook) have been amazing for the ecosystem, especially open source A new golden age for university research? It has been completely made irrelevant in the last 3 years, and now it has the chance to capture fundamental research back. Let corporations worry about products, as has always been.