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Question: In light of the article, is it fair to lump Bell Labs in with Xerox PARC like that? Bell invented a lot of stuff which directly improved the telephone
by flomo 2y ago
Question: In light of the article, is it fair to lump Bell Labs in with Xerox PARC like that? Bell invented a lot of stuff which directly improved the telephone system and communications in general. Possibly because they owned every problem from end-to-end. PARC invented some really great space-cadet stuff, which was semi-related to document production, but Xerox had no idea how to sell it, because it wasn't 'make copies'.
- cma 2y agoXerox made more off PARC's laser printer patent than the entire PARC budget. Plus they invented the modern desktop UI, and ethernet.
- flomo 2y agoOy, you're right about the laser printer (as that is how modern copy machines work). But GUIs, OOP programming, etc, Xerox had no business model around that at all and it was just sitting around, until someone "stole the loot".