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On Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:16:04 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> Both were essentially research playgrounds for bright people to try out
> risky new ideas, run at the expense of a vast parent corporation that
> made huge profits from a Government-granted monopoly (the US phone
> monopoly in the case of AT&T, patents on photocopiers in the case of
> Xerox).

IBM had their little skunk works too. In the early days of Java they 
released a compiler that was a lot better than the official and had some 
other neat tools. Some middle manager may have said 'Take a look at that 
Java stuff' and they grabbed it and ran.