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anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Bell labs was a real outlier.

It was funded by a regulated monopoly, with the government saying that a percentage of all profits had to go to R&D. They were not even allowed to give Unix to anyone other than universities, let alone profit of it.

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