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I don’t understand the sarcasm. More competition in the marketplace would create more innovation: I don’t think this should be controversial.

Even Bell Labs and Xerox PARC are two different entities.

These days Bell and Xerox would maybe merge to "consolidate their market position" and fire half of the researchers to show cost savings at the next board meeting.

I hear a lot about how ahead of their time they were and how everything since is based on them.. But it seems like newer things since then are all being built on the shoulders of a generation of thousands of giants instead of a generation where we can only identify 2.

It's a different time. I don't think we can compare the old Bell Labs/Xerox PARC vs Larry Ellison.

The Larry Ellison.

People have been saying that these concentration of wealth will end up hoarding our basic needs and we've seen that already with Housing.

First they come for your House, next they come for your Food.