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jacques_chester on Nov 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"

> Bell Labs had a recipe for brilliant innovation

Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?

Harder to achieve than it looks.

chimeracoder on Nov 13, 2012 [–]

> Government-guaranteed monopoly profits?

They also were forbidden from profiting from a large portion of the work that they did....

If that weren't the case, we wouldn't have GNU.

1SaltwaterC on Nov 13, 2012 | [–]

We wouldn't have OS X as it is today either.

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