> Bell Labs? Too bad that's pretty much the only such example that has been touted since... The 1960s, is it? And that it was, IIRC, recently either shut down

> Bell Labs? Too bad that's pretty much the only such example that has been touted since... The 1960s, is it? And that it was, IIRC, recently either shut down or announced to be shut down sometime soon. Thus, using this as an example seems, if anything, to illustrate not that "there are too!" but "there are dwindingly few".