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... and completely failing to capitalize on more or less all of them, because they didn't even try.
by jsolson 13y ago
... and completely failing to capitalize on more or less all of them, because they didn't even try.
- hyperbovine 13y agoYou mean, like, not charging money for anything?
- zArtLaffer 13y agoOr even release them as products. Or actively shutting them down (or attempting to). The mouse, their DRM language (as mal-conceived as it may have been, was pretty clean), Bob Metcalfe's Ethernet and bit-mapped windowing displays all come to mind. IIRC correctly there were some interesting experiments in object-oriented interpretive languages, their runtimes, dev environments and libraries (think about lessons learned from LISP/Smalltalk before Python/Ruby or Perl or even PHP) And there were more. Many more.
- cma 13y agoAs I recall they got something like an 8000% return on investment from all the money that went into PARC from the invention of the laser printer at PARC alone.