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I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product? There are certainly a bun
by scanr 14y ago
I'm curious if you're arguing that Microsoft shouldn't hedge their risk to Google Glass taking off by building a competitive product?
There are certainly a bunch of areas where Microsoft are also innovating (see Microsoft Research).
- meaty 14y agoMicrosoft Research: innovating to keep ideas away from other technology companies through patent hoarding. I'm not convinced anyone should be developing this product.
- kvb 14y agoI hope this isn't really your view of MSR; if it is, you might consider whether your opinions of Microsoft are coloring your perception. How is all of the academic work done on Haskell, for example, motivated by an impulse to exclude others from the technology? Or consider the MSR contributions to the papers on http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html, many of which are theoretical in nature. Do you view Xerox PARC or Bell Labs's research in the same way? Disclosure: I'm doing some contract work with the F# team in MSR Cambridge.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoThis is incredibly unfair. None of us (I work for MSRA) are doing research just to collect patents, we would totally like to change the world, like any researcher (e.g. in Google or Microsoft).
- Evbn 14y agoNot a rebuttal. A relevant rebuttal would be to cite management and legal behavior with regard to the patents your work generates.
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoBut you must know that we can't talk about that whether or not I have a decent rebuttal. But perhaps I could say that our incentives are clearly weighted toward innovation for the sake of new and better products.