[grativo]

I do not understand how such innovative organizations end up falling apart. Bell Labs had a similar objective, only researchers were able to do basically anything with unlimited funding. Many salient innovations were made at Bell Labs, I wonder if such organizations exist to this day on the scale of Bell or Norsk Data.

[Aloha]

Bell Labs fell apart because its reason to exist (and funding source) vanished when AT&T was broken up.