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I tend to agree - businesses should give back. But they can also keep some secrets. R&D has steep cost. Publishing it all gives your competitors an advantage.
by ArcHound 22d ago
I tend to agree - businesses should give back. But they can also keep some secrets.
R&D has steep cost. Publishing it all gives your competitors an advantage.
- kolinko 22d agoIt has steep costs, but with monopolists they have other ways of extracting value from the inventions. Awesome book about the history if Bell Labs - virtually all semiconductor tech we use today was created there (transistors, ics, solar, lasers, fiber optics, telecom satellites…), and they had to license it to be allowed to maintain their monopoly status. https://www.amazon.pl/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/1594203288 https://www.amazon.pl/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation...
- ArcHound 22d agoThanks for the recommendation, I do see your points. We should be treating monopolies differently.
- kolinko 22d agoThanks :) Another cool book about back and forth between monopolies and decentralisation in our space: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993 https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire... It also has an audiobook.