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So who became Xerox? (i.e., brilliant ideas, thrown away at the corporate level)
by vincent-manis 5mo ago
So who became Xerox? (i.e., brilliant ideas, thrown away at the corporate level)
- xerox13ster 5mo agoThey died of Fatal Neglect because no one gives a shit about brilliant ideas anymore.
- OhMeadhbh 5mo agoXerox was a weird mix. Insightful enough to fund PARC, but blind enough to not understand the computer market. There's a section in "Fumbling the Future" describing how Xerox higher-ups could not figure out why people thought the Alto, with it's bit-mapped / mouse-based interface was in any way different from SDS/XDS minis with a set of front panel switches and serial terminals hanging off the back. MSFT maintains a research arm (MSR) which routinely produces interesting concepts. Not that they would ever try to turn them into products. So maybe MSFT also turned into Xerox.