> Real artists ship. While true, don't you think that the world would be a poorer place without the research from Xerox Parc? People who were notoriously bad a

> Real artists ship. While true, don't you think that the world would be a poorer place without the research from Xerox Parc? People who were notoriously bad at shipping, but their ideas were used to create product elsewhere. My only point is that shipping isn't everything for research, unlike product development. So the question is really, are they looking to build a product, or research the future of computing? Perhaps both. Having said that, I do wish I could get my hands on one...