[pjc50]

I'm going to make the controversial claim that such research centres could only be so groundbreaking because they were, by conventional standards, extremely badly managed. Only by getting the right group of people together and letting them play with whatever they want, with a loose budget, do you get results like that. This lassitude is of course completely incompatible with hitting quarterly targets, or the painstaking work of taking a prototype to a product.

Neither was really subject to any kind of market pressure too.

[dracodoc]

Interestingly this pattern doesn't work with pure research: the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton hosted Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel, but there is little important work done in there.

[Angostura]

Carl Icahn is Xero's biggest shareholder with nearly 10%. Can't really imagine him putting up with such nonsense.

[dredmorbius]

Not so controversial as you might think.