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wasn't xerox parx effectively like that?

• WorldMaker 2y ago
  That's certainly how Xerox PARC is described in some of the tales of their classic discoveries/inventions/Demos. Certain decades of Bell Labs, too, have that glimmer of a bunch of the smartest people allowed to explore stuff they cared about with only the oversight from fellow technical people. I've even heard Microsoft Research can still sometimes feel a bit like that, though with all the pressures of academia like grant finding and patent applications and other such hustles.